LAGOS APRIL 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian atheist has been sentenced to 24 years in prison by a high court in the northern state of Kano after being convicted of blaspheming Islam. Mubarak Bala, the 37-year-old president of the Humanist Association of Nigeria, pleaded guilty to all 18 charges and asked for leniency. He has been in…
LAGOS APRIL 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Armed men have kidnapped an 83-year-old American nun in northern Burkina Faso, the bishop of the local diocese said on Tuesday. The bishop did not know the identity of the kidnappers. Militant groups, some with links to al Qaeda and Islamic State, have taken over large swathes of territory in Burkina Faso…
LAGOS APRIL 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Justice Minister Abubakar Malami has cautioned a Federal High Court (FHC) in Abuja against granting bail to suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Abba Kyari in his ongoing extradition case. Malami, in a counter-affidavit to the bail application by Kyari., said the embattled officer could abscond…
LAGOS APRIL 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Arthur O Urso, from Brazil, hit headlines when he discussed his controversial marriage to nine women. A man who currently has nine wives has revealed his intention to marry two more wives, making it 11. The man it was gathered married nine wives at once to celebrate free love. According to him,…
LAGOS APRIL 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The son of DIG Ibrahim Mamman Tsafe (rtd), incumbent Commissioner of Security and Home Affairs in Zamfara, has been shot dead. Daily Trust understands that Tsafe’s son alongside three others were killed when bandits invaded Tsafe town, headquarters of Tsafe local government area of the state, on Sunday night. In recent time,…
LAGOS APRIL 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Capital Territory Commissioner of Police, Sunday Babaji, has explained how three schoolchildren who went missing from the Star Child Heritage Academy in Kabusa, Abuja, were found. The children’s father, Sunday Ani, had confirmed the return of his children to THE WHISTLER on Monday. Sunday Marvelous, 8, Sunday Alex, 6, and…
LAGOS APRIL 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two million people will start receiving about N20bn from June this year as basic cash transfers and conditional cash transfers under the National Cash Transfer Programme, the Federal Government has said. It was gathered that the Federal Government would pay the two million people N5,000 each under the basic cash transfer and…
By Chief (Barr) Malcolm Omirhobo LAGOS APRIL 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The threat of Malam Nasir El-Rufai, the Governor of Kaduna State, to bring in foreign mercenaries to fight terrorists hibernating in forests areas around Kaduna State if the Federal Government under President Muhammadu Buhari fails to tackle the terrorism head-on is not only aggrandizing, but distractionary and…
