LAGOS JANUARY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-More than a dozen Saudi servicemen who are training at U.S. military bases will be expelled from the United States in the aftermath of a Pentagon review prompted by the deadly Dec. 6 shooting by a Saudi Air Force officer at an American naval base in Florida, CNN reported on Saturday. The […]
LAGOS JANUARY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Dikoye Oyeyinka, 33, has been billed as one of the most promising Nigerian writers of his generation. He went to some of the finest schools in his West African homeland but says that like the majority of his classmates he “didn’t know about Biafra until I was 14”. When he did begin […]
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LAGOS JANUARY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)_Iranian protesters and newspapers piled pressure on the country’s leadership and riot police stepped up their presence in Tehran on Sunday after Iran’s military admitted that it had mistakenly shot down a Ukrainian airliner. Riot police fired teargas at thousands of Iranians who had taken to the streets late on Saturday in […]
LAGOS JANUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Managing Director of Access Bank Plc, Herbert Wigwe, was on Friday arrested by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. Wigwe was picked up at the Bank’s head office in Victoria Island, Lagos State. Sources said he spent the night at the Lagos State office of the EFCC. Although details […]
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By Amos Okioma LAGOS JANUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)- Following a tip off, Operatives of Bayelsa State Police Command in collaboration with the vigilante of Okutukutu community, Yenagoa, arrested four suspected cultists on 10th January 2020, at about 0530 hours, for allegedly initiating minors into cultism. The suspected cultists include; one Godbless Jackson ‘m’, 29 years a […]
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LAGOS JANUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has urged the public to disregard an online publication which speculated that the commission had arraigned former vice president Atiku Abubakar over an alleged fraud of N75.3 billion. In a statement, on Friday, in Abuja by the commission’s Acting spokesperson, Mr Tony Orilade, EFCC dismissed the […]
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LAGOS JANUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Four soldiers and two policemen have been abducted by Boko Haram insurgents along Damaturu-Maiduguri road in Yobe state. The insurgents, according to sources who spoke with theCable, attacked the security officers in an ambush near Auno village on Damaturu-Maiduguri road. They were said to have appeared in military uniforms and mounted a […]
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LAGOS JANUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)- A burglar has reportedly died after jumping from a two-storey building in a community in Imo state. According to Vanguard, the Imo state police command, on Friday, said that a suspected burglar, name Uche Akunacha, male, 41-year-old, died after he jumped from a window to escape. The police state Public Relation […]
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LAGOS JANUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Billionaire kidnapper, Chukwudimeme Onwuamadike, alias Evans has made some shocking revelations in a video played during his trial in an Ikeja Hight Court on Friday. In the video played in the courtroom during the cross-examination of the Investigating Police Officer (IPO) Insp. Idowu Haruna by Mr Emmanuel Ochai, the defence counsel to […]
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LAGOS JANUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Iran announced Saturday that its military “unintentionally” shot down the Ukrainian jetliner that crashed earlier this week, killing all 176 aboard, after the government had repeatedly denied Western accusations that it was responsible. The plane was shot down early Wednesday, hours after Iran launched a ballistic missile attack on two military bases […]