Archive for: July, 2019

Why Nigeria Female Team Deserve Same Pay As Male Counterpart – Falcon Captain

LAGOS JULY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Desire Oparanozie believes the Nigeria women’s team deserve to receive the same pay as the country’s male side. Oparanozie, who captained the Super Falcons to a Round of 16 finish at the 2019 Fifa Women’s World Cup, made the comment at the 2019 Ladies In Sports Conference in Lagos. In 2018, Thomas […]

Nigeria’s 2019 Elections Were Not Credible-Civil Society Groups

LAGOS JULY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS) — Nigeria’s 2019 general elections weren’t credible due to logistical failures by the electoral commission, interference by the military, widespread violence and voter suppression, the Nigerian Civil Society Situation Room, a coalition of 70 civic groups that monitored the vote, said. President Muhammadu Buhari won a second four-year term in office […]

How Ogun Police Rescued Seven Kidnapped Victims On Lagos-Ibadan Road

LAGOS JULY 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Ogun State Police Command said it had arrested 41 suspected kidnappers after it rescued seven victims, including three staff of Lafia Hospital Apata Ibadan on Saturday. The staff had been reportedly kidnapped on Tuesday at Ogunmakin along Lagos-Ibadan expressway in Ogun State while coming from Lagos. The Police Public Relations Officer […]

Housewife Abducted While Jogging In Lagos

LAGOS JULY 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A housewife, Mrs. Gbemisola Alabi, 35 was on Sunday morning kidnapped by some unknown persons, while jogging around Monastery road near Novare Mall – Shoprite, Shongotedo- Ajah, Lagos on Sunday (28th July 2012). As at 7pm on Monday, her family was yet to be contacted by her captors. According to her relatives, […]

Bayelsa: Subscribers Stranded As Protesting Ijaw Youths Shut Down Telecom Masts

LAGOS JULY 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Telephone subscribers were left stranded, while telecommunication companies lost millions of Naira as protesting Ijaw youths shut down telecommunication masts in Bayelsa State. A Task Force of the Ijaw Youths Council (IYC), Central Zone, on Monday raided and shut down facilities belonging to telecommunication companies in Bayelsa State following unresolved disputes on […]

Iranian Women Posting Photos Online Without Hijab Face 10-Yrs Jail

LAGOS JULY 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Iranian women who post photos of themselves online without their headscarves on could face up to 10 years in prison. They face the punishment for posting images or video online, and for sending them to Masih Alinejad, a US-based activist who founded the “White Wednesdays” campaign in Iran to oppose the compulsory […]

Shi’ites Lament Delays In Zakzaky’s Bail Ruling, Insist Daily Protest Will Continue

LAGOS JULY 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Members of Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) have lamented the delay in the bail ruling for their leader, Ibrahim Zakzaky, insisting the daily protest will continue. IMN spokesman Ibrahim Musa who made the pronouncement said the group was “not happy” with the postponement decision adding that the almost daily demonstrations would continue. […]

Security Guard In Trouble For Stealing Catholic Church Offerings

LAGOS JUL Y 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 20-year-old security guard, Michael Nwaogwu, who allegedly stole N2,385 from an offering box, appeared in a Yaba magistrate’s court in Lagos. Nwaogwu was charged by the police with theft. The prosecution counsel, Sgt. Godwin Oriabure, told the court that the defendant committed the offence at midnight on July 17, at […]

419: Pastor Jailed 10 Years For Fraud

LAGOS JULY 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Isaac Kofi, 30-year-old self acclaimed pastor, has been jailed 10 years by the Ashaiman circuit court for defrauding by false pretense. Prosecuting, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Ahenkorah Afrifa, Ashaiman Divisional Police Command , told the court that, the accused was arrested on this month from his hideout after series of complaints […]

Hard Times: Ghanaian Prostitutes Pay Taxi Fare With Sex

LAGOS JULY 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Some commercial sex workers in Accra who cannot make enough daily sales during their escapades, have resorted to using sex in paying for their fares. This situation has become alarming and worrisome to most drivers, especially, taxi drivers, whose services these prostitutes engage in the Accra metropolis. Some of the drivers (names […]

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