LAGOS MAY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At least 50 people were killed by militants on Sunday around the town of Rann in Nigeria’s Borno state, in the country’s northeastern tip near the border with Cameroon, witnesses told Reuters by phone on Monday. Since 2009, Nigeria’s northeast and Borno state in particular have been the centre of an insurgency…
LAGOS MAY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A Kyiv court Monday ruled that a 21-year-old Russian soldier who killed a civilian was guilty of war crimes and handed him a life sentence, in the first verdict against Moscow’s forces since their invasion. “The court has found that (Vadim) Shishimarin is guilty and sentences him to life imprisonment,” judge Sergiy…
LAGOS MAY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-There was pandemonium in the Amule area of Ayobo, Lagos State, on Saturday, when members of the Nigeria Automobile Technicians Association, Ayobo unit, reportedly engaged in a fight over land. PUNCH Metro gathered that a former chairman of the unit allegedly assaulted two panel beaters, Matthew Idowu, and Sunday Olowolaiyemo, over the…
LAGOS MAY 23RD (NEWSRAGERS)-The Arewa community in Lagos State has said it supports the state government’s ban on Okada, urging its members to comply with the directive. This was stated after a meeting of the group on Sunday where issues bordering on the Okada ban by the state government were discussed. In a communiqué issued…
LAGOS MAY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Energy company, Shell, has inaugurated the second and final phase of its comprehensive health care projects for Oloibiri and other communities in Ogbia Local Government area of Bayelsa State. “Corporate Social Responsibility means doing well. What you have done today means you’re doing well. You are impacting the lives of the communities,…
LAGOS MAY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-After the faux outrage that Obi’s comment about not buying a car for his son about 30 years of age because he believes that he should work to get one for himself, generated, I decided to do a little background check on his son. Below is what I’ve been able to come…
LAGOS MAY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s retired general and politician, Jeremiah Useni, has forfeited 1.9 million British pounds hidden in bank accounts on the Island of Jersey, a court in that country ruled on Thursday, according to a local newspaper. Bailiwick Express reported that the Royal Court of Jersey seized the funds kept in four accounts at…
LAGOS MAY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A South African snake rescuer has described a difficult encounter with a cobra after he was called to a home in Reservoir Hills in Durban. Nick Evans, a reptile educator and conservationist, ended up being face to face with an angry Mozambique spitting cobra—a highly venomous snake native to Africa. The snake…
