LAGOS JANUARY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Dozens of gunmen on motorbikes ransacked a village and killed more than 50 people in the latest violence in northwest Nigeria, residents said on Sunday. Gangs have been terrorising areas of the northwest in recent years, forcing thousands to flee and gaining global notoriety through mass kidnappings at schools for ransom. Local…
LAGOS JANUARY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Real Madrid won’t be going a second consecutive season without a title. After failing to lift a trophy under Zinedine Zidane last season, Carlo Ancelotti’s Madrid secured the Spanish Super Cup with a 2-0 win over Athletic Bilbao on Sunday in Saudi Arabia. Luka Modric and Karim Benzema scored a goal in…
LAGOS JANUARY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Reigning champions Algeria are in danger of an early exit from the Africa Cup of Nations after a shock 1-0 defeat at the hands of outsiders Equatorial Guinea in Douala on Sunday. Esteban Obiang’s 70th-minute goal gave Equatorial Guinea the victory and brought Algeria’s 35-game unbeaten record crashing to an end. The…
LAGOS JANUARY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Billionaire businessman, Obinna Iyiegbu, popularly known as Obi Cubana, has opened up on his encounter with the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). Daily Trust had reported how the popular club owner was grilled by detectives over alleged ties to drug barons in Asia. In a live Instagram chat with Daddy Freeze,…
LAGOS JANUARY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Baptist Convention (NBC) has declared that it spent a whopping sum of N250 million to secure the release of its students who were kidnapped from Bethel Baptist College, Kaduna, last year. It scored the fight against insecurity by the President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration as below par, considering the number of…
LAGOS JANUARY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Commissioner of Police in Anambra, Echeng Echeng, says the command has arrested a Commander of the Anambra Vigilance Group (AVG) over the alleged torturing of a female police officer. The commander, whose name was not disclosed, was said to have arrested and tortured the officer at AVG office in Awuda Nnobi…
LAGOS JANUARY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has kept mum over the reported arrest of businessman and socialite, Obi Iyiegbu, popularly known as Obi Cubana. The businessman was reportedly grilled by operatives of the agency on Thursday over four hours over alleged drug ties before he was granted bail and asked to…
LAGOS JANUARY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Officers of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) Ogun 1 Area Command who were pursuing some suspected rice smugglers Thursday night have shot a two-year-old girl. The incident occurred at Itawaya, near the Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro, Yewa South Local Government Area of Ogun State. Photos made available to this newspaper showed the bullet…
