LAGOS JANUARY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A trending video has showed two police officers, who allegedly extorted N150,000 from a motorist, accidentally recording themselves on the victim’s phone. According to the victim, who shared the video, the officers abducted him and forcefully transferred the money from him using a POS agent in Sapele, Delta State. “This happened after…
LAGOS JANUARY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Sinead O’Connor has been hospitalized after tweeting harrowing messages suggesting she planned to “follow” son Shane just days after he was found dead. The distraught 55-year-old singer told fans Thursday afternoon that she was “with cops now on way to hospital” just an hour after her distressing thread about also dying. “I’ve…
LAGOS JANUARY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An Indian court has acquitted a Catholic bishop who was charged with raping a nun in a case that sparked widespread outrage and protests. Bishop Franco Mulakkal, 54, was acquitted by a court in the southern Indian state of Kerala on Friday, which said the prosecution had failed to prove any of…
LAGOS JANUARY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Lionel Messi said on Thursday he needs more time to recover before playing again after contracting Covid-19 earlier this month. Paris Saint-Germain star Messi, 34, tested positive while on holiday in his hometown of Rosario before flying back to the French capital on January 5. The seven-time Ballon d’Or winner has missed…
LAGOS JANUARY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Leslie Shumaker Downey was at home babysitting her two grandchildren Monday when a message pinged on her cellphone. Her daughter had sent a link to a news article about a 57-year-old man with terminal heart disease. Three days earlier at the University of Maryland Medical Center, he’d received a genetically-modified pig heart….
LAGOS JANUARY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Thirty-year-old man, Obinali, who resides in Shomolu area of Lagos has given a shocking revelation how he was involved in internet fraudulent activities commonly referred to as yahoo yahoo. He narrated how he fraudulently stole N4.5 million from a white man, Mr. Winson, whom he met online. The victim is a United…
LAGOS JANUARY 13THAnambra State governor-elect, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, has released a list of people to midwife his swearing-in as governor of Anambra State on March 17, 2022. The list which was released to Tribune Online by Soludo’s media aide, Joe Anatume, is comprised of 80 members, with prominent Nigerians who will play diverse roles in…
LAGOS JANUARY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An economist and a former Minister of Finance between 1986 and 1990, Prof. Chu S. P. Okongwu, has died. He was 87. The Anambra State-born Harvard-trained economist, who was also the National Planning Minister between 1985 and 1986, served under the military regime of General Ibrahim Babangida. President Muhammadu Buhari and Labour…