LAGOS JUNE 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The body of a missing Nigerian man has been found and recovered from Okanagan Lake, Canada. 34-year old Oluwaseun Samson Adedeji from Calgary had been missing since June 18. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police confirmed on Monday that the body pulled from Okanagan Lake by its Underwater Recovery Team was Mr Adedeji’s. […]
LAGOS JUNE 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-MoMo Payment Service Bank, the new financial services subsidiary of telecoms company MTN Nigeria, suffered a breach in the last week of May just days after launch, reportedly losing 22 billion naira ($53 million.) Nigerian payment service banks operate with a mobile money license reserved for non-bank institutions. They offer deposits and […]
LAGOS JUNE 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-International Press Institute (IPI) Nigeria has noted with concern the arrest, detention and subsequent arraignment before a magistrate court in Bauchi of the publisher of WikkiTimes online newspaper, Mr. Haruna Mohammed and a reporter, Mr. Idris Kamal, by the police in Bauchi. The journalists claimed that they were physically assaulted while they were in […]
LAGOS JUNE 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A German court sentenced a former SS guard, now 101 years old, to five years in jail on Tuesday (June 28). He was accused of assisting in the murder of 3,518 people at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. The verdict brings an end to one of the last Nazi trials in Germany. Prosecutors […]
LAGOS JUNE 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The popularity of the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, got a boost in Kaduna on Tuesday as several Northern youths embarked on a solidarity walk in his favour. The youths, who represent different organisations called on the presidential hopeful to remain resolute in his campaign towards birthing a new […]
LAGOS JUNE 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At least 46 people, believed to be migrants, have been found dead in an abandoned lorry on the outskirts of San Antonio, Texas. A fire official said 16 people including four children had also been taken to hospital. The survivors were “hot to the touch” and suffering from heat stroke and heat […]
Tony Okoroji LAGOS JUNE 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-When the former Anambra State Governor, Mr. Peter Obi suddenly dumped the Peoples’ Democratic Party for the hitherto unheralded Labour Party and became LP’s presidential candidate, I wrote in this column that it may have been Nigeria’s greatest political masterstroke of a century. There were however many in the professional […]
LAGOS JUNE 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Justice Tijani Ringim of a Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday refused to hear two cases of a human right lawyer, Malcolm Omihrhobo, who adorned himself in a lawyer’s gown with ‘native doctor’ attire to court. The lawyer also appeared bare footed with cowries tied on his two legs. His wig […]
LAGOS JUNE 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two yet-to-be-identified cattle herders on Monday reportedly stabbed a man to death in protest against the killing of a cow around Agemowo, in the Badagry area of Lagos State. PUNCH Metro gathered that the herders were crossing the expressway with their cattle when a commercial bus crushed the cow to death. Angered […]
By Jerome-Mario Chijioke Utomi LAGOS JUNE 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-This piece stemmed from the content of conversations held, and recommendations made during the recently celebrated International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, or World Drug Day, marked on 26 June every year to among other aims strengthen action and cooperation in achieving a world free of drug […]
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