LAGOS DECEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen attacked a rural village in northern Nigeria, killing 16 worshipers at a mosque and kidnapping others, said a local official. The assault on Ba’are village in the Mashegu area of Niger state lasted for hours on Thursday, local government chairman Alhassan Isah Mazakuka said. Dozens of the assailants arrived on motorcycles…
LAGOS DECEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A man from China was reported to the police five times in three days due to his resemblance to a North Korean defector. The doppelganger: The Chinese man in the dark blue jacket has a similar hairstyle, facial features and expression of the North Korean, who is identified as Zhu Xianjian by…
LAGOS DECEMBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A man, Biodun Adebiyi, 30, has been arrested for allegedly beating a cigarette seller to death over N50 balance at Idiroko area of Ogun State. The suspect a resident of Oladun street Ikotun Lagos, killed the 35-yesr-old Mukaila Adamu ,with a fist blow. According to Ogun State Police Spokesman, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi:”…
LAGOS DECEMBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two hippopotamuses have tested positive for Covid-19 at Antwerp zoo in Belgium. Imani, aged 14, and Hermien, 41, have no symptoms apart from runny noses, but the zoo said they had been put in quarantine as a precaution. “To my knowledge, this is the first time in this species. Worldwide, this virus has been…
LAGOS DECEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The House of Representatives’ Committee on Public Accounts is investigating the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control for paying part of the N9bn it received as special intervention fund from the Federal Government on COVID-19 into personal accounts of some members of its staff. The committee had on Friday grilled the Director-General of…
LAGOS DECEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ahead of the 2023 presidential election, a fresh crisis is brewing in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) over the ambition of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, former governor of Lagos State, to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari as Nigeria’s next leader. Even though Tinubu is yet to formally declare his interest in the presidential…
LAGOS DECEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian official on Monday criticized a travel ban imposed on the West African nation by the British government amid fears about the new omicron coronavirus variant as “punitive, indefensible and discriminatory.” U.K. Health Secretary Sajid Javid on Saturday added Nigeria to the U.K.’s travel “red list,” which means that arrivals from…
LAGOS DECEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Aung San Suu Kyi, the civilian leader of Myanmar who was ousted in a de facto coup this year, was convicted on two charges Monday and handed a four-year sentence that was quickly cut in half — in proceedings widely criticized as a further effort by the country’s military rulers to roll…
