LAGOS APRIL 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Policemen attached to the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, Imo State Police Command, have been accused of collecting a N10,000 bribe from some journalists. The operatives, led by one Inspector Uche, reportedly collected the money under duress, threatening to frame the journalists if they failed to give the bribe. A photo…
LAGOS APRIL 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Los Angeles firefighters have found 13-year-old Jesse Hernandez alive in the sewer system near Griffith Park on Easter Sunday. Hernandez fell into the sewer system Sunday afternoon after jumping on wooden planks in an abandoned maintenance building. A frantic, overnight search for Jesse Hernandez — the 13-year-old boy who plunged into a…
LAGOS APRIL 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Former President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, has released a list of those he termed the “real looters”. In a post on Facebook by his spokesman, Reno Omokri, Jonathan said the list, made up of top shots of the All Progressives Congress, is one President Muhammadu Buhari and the Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai…
LAGOS APRIL 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Super Eagles’ skipper, Nwankwo Kanu, has denied media reports linking him with Nigeria’s presidential race in 2019. The Atlanta ’96 Olympics gold medalist reacted to the news on Monday. Kanu distanced himself from the report, saying he has no plans to unseat President Muhammadu Buhari. According to the Arsenal legend: “The…
LAGOS MARCH 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The chances of President Donald Trump facing an impeachment trial after a month of very poor press coverage have increased and reached their highest point in all of 2018, according to oddsmakers. Political and financial futures site PredictIt showed that the cost of one “Yes” share, which predicted Trump would face impeachment…
LAGOS APRIL 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)- Oil fell by more than 2 percent on Monday, pressured by a rise in Russian production, expectations that Saudi Arabia will cut prices of the crude it sends to Asia and a deepening trade spat between China and the United States. Brent crude fell $1.70, or 2.5 percent, to settle at…
LAGOS APRIL 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Winnie Mandela, the former wife of South African anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela, died on Monday at the age of 81, triggering an outpouring of tributes to one of the country’s defining and most divisive figures. She died in a Johannesburg hospital after a long illness, family spokesman Victor Dlamini said in a…
LAGOS APRIL3RD (NEWSRANGERS)- A Boko Haram attack in the Nigerian city of Maiduguri killed at least 15 people and wounded 83, a military spokesman said on Monday, in the biggest strike since the government said it was in talks with the Islamist militant group. The military said the incident occurred late on Sunday and included…
