Archive for: April, 2023

Fact Check Reveals Photo Of Buhari, Tinubu In Mecca Posted By Omaseye Is Fake

LAGOS APRIL 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An image has been shared on Twitter with claims that it shows Nigeria’s president-elect Bola Tinubu and outgoing leader Muhammadu Buhari in Saudi Arabia on April 12, 2023. But while both men announced separately they were indeed heading to Saudi Arabia this month, the claim is nonetheless false: the picture was taken […]

How Couple Allegedly Beheaded Themselves In Sacrifice With Homemade Guillotine

LAGOS APRIL 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An Indian couple has allegedly died by suicide by using a guillotine-like mechanism to decapitate themselves in a sacrificial ritual, police said Sunday. Hemubhai Makwana, 38, and his wife Hansaben, 35, both died by decapitation after using a homemade bladed mechanism in a hut on their farm in the western state of […]

Russian Foreign Minister Speaks Of “Ending Ukraine War As Fast As Possible”

LAGOS APRIL 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Sergey Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, asserted that Russia is “interested in ending the war in Ukraine as fast as possible”. Source: Russian state-owned news agency RIA Novosti with reference to Lavrov’s statement after his meeting with Head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil, Mauro Vieira. […]

Piracy: Nigeria Navy Assures Of Maintaining Sanctity Of Nigeria Maritime Environment

LAGOS APRIL 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Navy, NN has assured that it will continued to employ her surveillance infrastructure to monitor shipping activities within the Nation’s maritime environment and will continue to exploit intelligence to track activities of criminals in order to maintain sanctity of the Nigerian Maritime Environment (NME). The Navy in a statement signed […]

Police, EFCC And A Citizen’s Dilemma

By Gbade Ogunwale LAGOS APRIL 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A filed a petition with the Federal Capital Territory Police Command seeking redress for an injustice I suffered. The petition, dated March 23, 2021, detailed a case of unlawful confiscation of my properties and a criminal breach of trust. The suspect had deceptively confiscated my Honda Accord car, a […]

Guarantor In Trouble As  First Bank Staff Bolted Away With Millions of Naira

LAGOS APRIL 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A staff of First Bank PLC, Marina Branch, Lagos State, Banniya Babatunde Anthony, has allegedly bolted away with the bank’s money worth millions of Naira and went into hiding. P.M.EXPRESS reports that following the ugly incident the management of the bank has moved against his guarantor, Mowobi Sunday, for falsely claiming his […]

Unrest In Nigeria Immigration Service As Acting CGIS Lobbies For Tenure Elongation

LAGOS APRIL 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The disquiet in the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) appears to have boiled following news of an alleged plot by Idris Isah Jere, the Acting Comptroller General of Immigration Services (CGIS) to extend his tenure for another one-year period. The CGI was due to have proceeded of retirement from service last year but […]

Edo Community Protests As Monarch Rules From Diaspora

LAGOS APRIL 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The people of Odighi Village in Ovia North East Local government Area of Edo State have kicked against the alleged overseeing of affairs of the village from abroad by the Enogie (Duke), HRH. Osaretin Akenzua. Mr Andrew Amayo, the third most elderly man (Ozukpogieha) in the Village stated this on behalf of […]

Flood Sweeps Four-Year-Old Boy Away In Ogba- Lagos

LAGOS APRIL 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Parents of a four-year-old boy, Chukwuemeka Okoro, and their neighbours are currently troubled over their inability to retrieve the boy’s body almost one week after he was washed away by a flood in a Lagos community. PUNCH Metro gathered that the incident happened last week Tuesday when Okoro fell into a canal […]

Bricklayer Convicted For Selling Indian Hemp In Ikoyi Prison

LAGOS APRIL 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal High Court in Lagos has sentenced a 31-year-old bricklayer, Rasheed Bolaji, to two years imprisonment, for selling Cannabis Sativa, in the Ikoyi custodial centre of the Nigerian Correctional Services (NCoS). Justice Abimbola Awogboro sentenced Bolaji on Friday following his guilty plea to a two-count charge of trafficking and unlawful dealing […]

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