LAGOS FEBRUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria is set to repatriate 9, 800 refugees from Cameroon to Nigeria as representatives have arrived in Marwa, in Cameroon to complete the move. The 9,800 refugees are those in the first phase of the repatriation from Cameroon from the 46,000 Nigerians taking refuge in Minawao camp in the country. According to…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A magistrate court in Lagos on Wednesday February 10, remanded a 27-year-old fisherman, Fatai Yussuf in a custodial centre for allegedly killing his six-week-old daughter. The suspect who is facing a count charge of murder, was accused of throwing his six-week-old daughter into a lagoon because she was sick. He reportedly committed the said offence on December 27, 2020 at…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Magistrate Court in Ilorin Magistrates on Wednesday remanded Usman Abdulkareem, a husband, at a correctional facility for allegedly conspiring with a local medicine man and a friend to abduct his wife, Mumeenat for money ritual. It was gathered that Abdulkareem conspired with the medicine man, Babatunde Mohammed and a friend Fatai…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than three personnel of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) have been abducted by Boko Haram in an attack on a Yobe volatile town. Some Boko Haram invaded Geidam, about 130 kilometres to Damaturu, the state capital on Tuesday evening, firing several shots for nearly half an hour, residents said. Security…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The late Afrobeat legend, Olufela Olusegun Oludotun Ransome-Kuti popularly known as Fela Anikulapo Kuti could be set for a posthumous honour after he was nominated for the 2021 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The late musician was nominated alongside international artistes like JAY-Z, Dionne Warwick, Foo Fighters, The Go-Go’s, Iron Maiden…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Soccer star Jérôme Boateng’s model ex-girlfriend Kasia Lenhardt has passed away at the age of 25. According to Bild, who cited the Berlin police, the former contestant of Germany’s Next Top Model was found dead in a home on Tuesday, Feb. 9. “Yesterday at around 8.30 p.m., there was a police operation…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Priest-in-charge of the St. Paul’s Anglican Church, Ariaria in Abia North Local Government Area, Archdeacon Julius Dike, has been found dead with his wife and house help. His wife, Agnes, was said to be a staff of the Aba South Local Government Area while the house help was said to be…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A female reporter with Nigeria Television Authority, NTA, Network Centre in Port Harcourt , Mrs Chidiebele Julian Nweke Onyia, has been kidnapped by yet to be identified persons. Available details of how she was kidnapped are sketchy at the time of filing this report. But according to a post by Mrs Osinachi…