http://ift.tt/2zpWfLr Its plush carpets and glittering chandeliers are fit for a prince, but for several senior Saudi royals the ballroom of the Riyadh Ritz Carlton is a gilded cage. LAGOS NOVEMBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Video footage emerged on Tuesday showing how the luxury hotel has been turned into a bizarre prison camp where some of the country’s…
http://ift.tt/2m32DoV Adeosun LAGOS NOVEMBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government is to investigate all Nigerian who have been linked to offshore accounts in some tax havens as leaked by Paradise Papers. The Minister of Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, disclosed on Tuesday that the government would be investigating high net-worth individuals and companies who frequent offshore tax havens….
http://ift.tt/2j7QuOD LAGOS NOVEMBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Ekiti State House of Assembly has passed a law prescribing death penalty for anybody found guilty of engaging in cultism, while also revising upward punishments for those aiding and abetting the practice. The House also passed the 2017 Revised Appropriation bill into law at plenary on the floor of the…
http://ift.tt/2AiBIYv Buhari LAGOS NOVEMBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Host Communities of Nigeria Producing Oil and Gas (HOSCON) have urged the Federal Government to release the N98bn gas flare penalty money owed the oil producing communities. The National Chairman of the organization, Mr Mike Emuh, told newsmen on Tuesday in Abuja that releasing the money would help to…
http://ift.tt/2Ah2pwK Seriake Dickson LAGOS NOVEMBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Bayelsa State Government on Tuesday took the first major step to implement the comprehensive reforms in the state’s civil service. Consequently, the government had withheld the salaries of 4204 suspects from the eight Local Government Areas for the month of October, 2017, according to the Deputy Governor of…
http://ift.tt/2m0FeVr Some of the rescued children LAGOS NOVEMBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian police has rescued no fewer than thirty children hidden in human cargo warehouse in Gwagwalada, Abuja. Our source revealed that the rescue of the children was made possible when police in Kafanchan Kaduna state arrested a young man who specializes in luring little kids left…
http://ift.tt/2zlJ0OF IGP Idris LAGOS NOVEMBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 42 suspected armed robbers and cultists detained by the Special Anti Robbery Squad cell (SARS) in Yenagoa on Tuesday broke free from detention and escaped. A Policeman attached to the SARS who was drafted to cordon off the facility said that they were still taking stock…
http://ift.tt/2iBUWBo Amaechi LAGOS NOVEMBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two bridges in Jibowu and Costain, Lagos, will be demolished by the federal government for the laying of rail tracks which will start in December this year. Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi said this after a meeting with the contractor handling the rail project, China Civil Engineering Construction Company (CCECC)….