LAGOS MAY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the recommendation of the Ministry of Transportation under Rt. Hon. Rotimi Amaechi for the setting up of an Administrative Panel of Inquiry to investigate the Management of the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA. A statement issued by the President’s media aide stated the Managing Director, Hadiza Bala Usman…
LAGOS JANUARY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, wants the International Criminal Court (ICC) and other agencies to probe the tenure of the sacked service chiefs for human rights abuses and extra judicial killings. President Buhari had sacked the service chiefs after many Nigerians have agitated for their sack. Fayose took to his…
LAGOS JANUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The European Union has joined a growing number of international voices calling for a probe into Ugandan election abuses and violence that left more than 40 people dead in the lead up to the polls. Opposition candidates were harassed by security forces, the media was suppressed by the government, and observers’ offices…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The House of Representatives Committee on the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), is seeking the prosecution of the Interim Management Committee (IMC), of the Commission and several contractors prosecuted for looting over N81.5bn through phony contracts, over invoicing and other frauds between January to May, 2020. The panel also revealed that the…
LAGOS OCTOBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered a probe into the shootings of #EndSARS protesters at the Lekki toll gate. The Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare, said this during an interview on Arise Television on Friday. Many people were injured when soldiers opened live ammunition on the #EndSARS protesters Tuesday night….
LAGOS AUGUST 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The presidential panel probing Ibrahim Magu, suspended acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has recommended his sack, TheCable understands. In its interim report submitted on Wednesday, the panel headed, by Ayo Salami, retired president of the court of appeal, also recommended that Magu should be prosecuted over allegations…
LAGOS AUGUST 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Minister of Transportation has again given reasons he asked the National Assembly not to probe the Chinese loans. The clause in the agreement signed by the Federal Ministry of Finance on behalf of Nigeria and Chinese Bank on September 5, 2018 has generated a lot of controversies in the country in…
LAGOS AUGUST 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has been asked to probe the administrations of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the Minister of Works, Babtunde Raji Fashola (SAN) as governors of Lagos state. Asiwaju Tinubu was governor of the state between 1999 and 2007 while Fashola also governed the state between 2007…