LAGOS OCTOBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has threatened to impound 29 jets from private owners, if they fail to pay statutory import duties before the 14 days ultimatum given . The Nigeria Customs Service released its report on verification of privately-owned airplanes in the country on Tuesday in Abuja. Customs’ spokesman, Mr Joseph…
LAGOS JUNE 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Department of State Security, DSS, has invited Kaduna-based Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Abubakar Gumi, for questioning over remarks he made in a TV interview that allegedly portrayed the Nigerian military in a bad light. A report by the Voice of America, VOA, Hausa Service monitored on Friday, said Gumi was invited…
LAGOS APRIL 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has condemned what it described as an unprovoked attack on some members of IPOB and Eastern Security Network (ESN) operatives at Oguta junction, Mgbidi, along Owerri road – Onitsha Expressway, by a joint security force comprising the army, police and Department of State Security (DSS) operatives….
LAGOS MARCH 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Chairman of EFCC (Economic and Financial Crimes Commission), Abdulrasheed Bawa, has threatened to resign from the position, if he is asked to compromise. Bawa said this when he featured in a NTA interview programme One-on-One on Friday. His words were posted in a statement on the EFCC’s official Twitter handle. Bawa…
LAGOS MARCH 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Lawyers to President Muhammadu Buhari’s daughter; Mrs. Zahra Buhari-Indimi have ordered publishers of Sahara Reporters to make a retraction of their story in which the President’s daughter was said to have received the sum of N2.5billion out of N51billion allegedly defrauded Nigerian Government by a chieftain of All Progressives Congress (APC) and…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The largest militia group in the US will refuse to recognise President-elect Joe Biden as the nation’s duly elected leader when he is sworn in on 20 January 2021. The Oath Keepers, an armed right-wing organisation that boasts tens of thousands of members with law enforcement and military backgrounds, was one of…
LAGOS JULY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Emmanuel Omale, founder of Divine Hand of God Prophetic Ministries International, Abuja, has threatened to file a suit against NAN over a report that he helped Ibrahim Magu, suspended acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) acquire a property in Dubai. NAN had published a report of the Presidential…
LAGOS JULY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN vowed to take legal action against Sahara Reporters on account of defamatory publications made against him. Malami said, the consequence of the criminal defamation published by Sahara Reporters, has subjected him to considerable distress, psychological trauma, anxiety and greatly injured his…