LAGOS APRIL 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Heavy gunfire and explosions were heard in Sudan’s capital Khartoum following days of tension between the army and a powerful paramilitary group. Shooting and blasts took place on Saturday in the vicinity of Sudan’s army headquarters and the defence ministry in central Khartoum, as well as the presidential palace and airport. Columns…
LAGOS APRIL 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A professional footballer in Tunisia has died after setting himself alight earlier this week as a protest against “police injustice”, his family said. Tunisian football player Nizar Issaoui, 35, suffered third-degree burns and was taken to the specialist burns hospital in Tunis, but doctors were unable to save his life, his brother…
LAGOS APRIL 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Justice Tijjani Ringim of the Federal High Court, Lagos has placed a “post-no-debit status/lien” on the accounts of two alleged drug traffickers domiciled in three commercial banks in Nigeria. The alleged drug kingpins, whose accounts were blocked by the court are Nnaemeka John Nwaozor and Levi Onwubiko Nwagu. They are currently…
LAGOS APRIL 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Kano State Police Command has arrested three people, all of them residents of Ja’en Makera quarters in Sharada area of Kano metropolis, for allegedly forcing a 13-year-old Almajiri to eat human faeces that were dumped by an unknown person in the area. The incident happened on Thursday after the father of…
LAGOS APRIL 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Three Nigerian men have been indicted by the United States Secret Service over an alleged $6 million scam. The US Justice Department said in a statement on Thursday that the three Nigerians identified as Kosi Goodness Simon-Ebo, age 29, James Junior Aliyu, aka “Old Soldier,” and “Ghost,” age 28 and Henry Onyedikachi…
LAGOS APRIL 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A magistrates’ court in Akure, the capital of Ondo State, on Thursday ordered the detention of a 56-year-old pastor named Emmanuel Adebayo in connection with the alleged murder of Toyin Olatunji, 50. Pastor Emmanuel Adebayo of the Christ Apostolic Church (CAC) was detained at the Corecctional home in relation to the…
LAGOS APRIL 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba has approved the posting of the recently promoted Deputy Inspector-General of Police, DIG Olukayode Egbetokun Adeolu as the supervising DIG for the South-West Geo-Political Zone to man the Force Criminal Investigations Department (FCID) Force Headquarters, Abuja. The New posting of Egbetokun Adeolu and thirty…
LAGOS APRIL 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The spokesperson for Atiku Presidential Campaign Organization, Daniel Bwala has alleged that Nigeria Immigration service issued Peter Obi’s imposter international passport sharing his identity. Bwala who gave the information on Friday said that Obi should ask the court to compel the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Nigerian government to provide the impersonator whom the…