LAGOS DECEMBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A group of northern youths has unveiled plans to mobiliise its members for a peaceful rally at the US embassy to protest the indictment of Allen Oyema over an alleged $20million fraud. Onyema, the chairman and CEO of Air Peace was accused of money laundering by the United States Department of Justice….
LAGOS DECEMBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Some suspected kidnappers have allegedly dropped letters to family members of a US-based Professor of Fine Arts, Prof Onoyom Ukpong kidnapped on Thursday. The letters allegedly written by the victim were reportedly dropped at various family houses of the victim particularly, Prof Ukpong family cmpound, No 9 Mbukpa Street, Calabar South Local…
LAGOS DECEMBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-In its efforts to sanitise Nigerian tertiary institutions across the country, the executive secretary of the National University Commission (NUC), Prof Abubakar Adamu Rasheed, said about 100 fake professors have been uncovered by the commission. Sun reports that Prof Rasheed said that about 100 fake professors’ details were posted on the NUC…
LAGOS DECEMBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Six persons have been arrested following a bloody clash between Ghanaian and Nigerian traders in Accra. Three persons, according to the police, were injured during the Monday morning fight at Kwame Nkrumah Circle.The fight follows the closure of shops belonging to some Nigerian traders. Earlier report suggested that the aggrieved Nigerian traders…
LAGOS DECEMBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Iran is experiencing its deadliest political unrest since the Islamic Revolution 40 years ago, with at least 180 people killed — and possibly hundreds more — as angry protests have been smothered in a government crackdown of unbridled force. It began two weeks ago with an abrupt increase of at least 50%…
LAGOS DECEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Anthony Joshua’s training for the Andy Ruiz rematch was reportedly hindered after he was badly hurt in sparring. Anthony Joshua was reportedly hurt during sparring while training for his rematch with Andy Ruiz. Joshua will fight Ruiz for the second time in Saudi Arabia on Saturday having been beaten by the Mexico…
LAGOS DECEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A South African police constable, Austin Reynold, has been sentenced to 30 years in jail by a court for killing a Nigerian man living in that country. Twenty-four-year Reynold was accused of killing Ebuka Okoli in Durban, a coastal city in Kwa Zulu-Natal province in South Africa. The court sentenced the policeman…
LAGOS DECEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-On Monday December 2,2019 at Ikoyi Prison,there was an Electrocution in One of the cells and 5 inmates were electrocuted to death whilst 10 others were seriously injured and in a state of shock due to an electric shock … The Incident happened at some minutes past 7am. Stella Dimoko Korkus sources…