LAGOS JUNE 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Minister of Communications, Major General Tajudeen Olanrewaju, has described as too weighty to be ignored by the government, the allegations by Niger Delta ex-militant leader, Mujahid Asari Dokubo, that the Nigerian Army, Navy and some cabals are behind 99 per cent of the oil theft in the country. Former minister noted…
LAGOS JUNE 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has sued President Bola Tinubu, over “the failure to probe the allegations that USD$2.1 billion and N3.1 trillion public funds of oil revenues and budgeted as fuel subsidy payments are missing and unaccounted for between 2016 and 2019.” SERAP filed a lawsuit against Tinubu at the…
LAGOS JUNE 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A rights group, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to “set up a presidential panel of enquiry to promptly probe the grim allegations that US$2.1 billion and N3.1 trillion, being public funds from oil revenues, which were budgeted as fuel subsidy payments are missing and unaccounted…
LAGOS AUGUST 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts has taken its investigation into the financial records of the Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA) to the London office of the authority. The Public Accounts Committee is investigating non-remittances of accruing revenue to the Federation Account by the NPA as well as other queries from the…
LAGOS APRIL 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, has ordered an investigation to unravel the identity of an officer captured smoking weed in public in the Ijora area of Lagos State. Sunday PUNCH gathered that the picture, which was taken by a concerned fellow, was posted online. The post which went viral was reposted…
LAGOS JULY 23RD )NEWSRANGERS)-The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) has received a petition detailing over N92b and millions of money in foreign currencies of public funds squandered by several Federal Government agencies including the country’s foreign missions. In a petition sent to the Chairman, EFCC Mr Abdulrasheed Bawa, Nigeria’s anti-corruption group, Human and Environmental…
LAGOS JUNE 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa, says a former governor of Lagos State and national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is under investigation. In an exclusive interview published by ThisDay on Sunday, Bawa said investigation does not end in a day. He…
LAGOS MAY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Minority Caucus of the House of Representatives has expressed shock over the Friday crash of the military aircraft that claimed the lives of Chief of Army Staff, COAS Lt. Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru and 10 other military officers. A statement signed by the Minority Leader, Hon Ndudi Elumelu on Saturday described the…