LAGOS DECEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen have murdered the traditional ruler of Atta ancient kingdom in the Njaba Local Government Area of Imo State, Edwin Azike. His corpse was found at the market square in the community on Friday morning after he was abducted on Thursday. A community source, who pleaded not to be mentioned, told The…
LAGOS DECEMBER 10TH *NEWSRANGERS)-The indigenous people of Biafra, IPOB, on Thursday said that the plans by President Muhammadu Buhari to secretly visit Ebonyi State will be resisted by youths of the South East geopolitical zone, unless the national leader, Nnamdi Kanu is released unconditionally from the DSS detention. IPOB expressed regrets that their leader, Kanu…
LAGOS DECEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former goalkeeper of the Nigerian women’s national football team, Rachael Aladi Ayegba, has turned into a bus driver in the United Kingdom. Ayegba played in the 2007 Women’s World Cup, the 2006 and 2008 African Women’s Championships and had an 11-year stint as a pro in Finland, winning the league title…
LAGOS DECEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen attacked a rural village in northern Nigeria, killing 16 worshipers at a mosque and kidnapping others, said a local official. The assault on Ba’are village in the Mashegu area of Niger state lasted for hours on Thursday, local government chairman Alhassan Isah Mazakuka said. Dozens of the assailants arrived on motorcycles…
LAGOS DECEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A man from China was reported to the police five times in three days due to his resemblance to a North Korean defector. The doppelganger: The Chinese man in the dark blue jacket has a similar hairstyle, facial features and expression of the North Korean, who is identified as Zhu Xianjian by…
LAGOS DECEMBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A man, Biodun Adebiyi, 30, has been arrested for allegedly beating a cigarette seller to death over N50 balance at Idiroko area of Ogun State. The suspect a resident of Oladun street Ikotun Lagos, killed the 35-yesr-old Mukaila Adamu ,with a fist blow. According to Ogun State Police Spokesman, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi:”…
LAGOS DECEMBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two hippopotamuses have tested positive for Covid-19 at Antwerp zoo in Belgium. Imani, aged 14, and Hermien, 41, have no symptoms apart from runny noses, but the zoo said they had been put in quarantine as a precaution. “To my knowledge, this is the first time in this species. Worldwide, this virus has been…
LAGOS DECEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The House of Representatives’ Committee on Public Accounts is investigating the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control for paying part of the N9bn it received as special intervention fund from the Federal Government on COVID-19 into personal accounts of some members of its staff. The committee had on Friday grilled the Director-General of…