LAGOS JANUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Thailand’s Immigration police have arrested four Nigerians and one Cameroonians and charged them with operating an online romance scam to deceive Thai women into wiring them money. Immigration Police Bureau commissioner, Pol Lt-General Sutthipong Wongpin, revealed that their arrest came after police received complaints from several Thai women who reported that foreigners…
LAGOS JANUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A group of Cameroonian activists demanding secession from the French-speaking regions says it’s considering attacks on foreign companies operating in the central African nation. The group, which hails from the country’s two Anglophone regions, says it wants to “target foreign companies investing in Cameroon” because their revenues sustain “incompetent officials” in President…
LAGOS JANUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Lagos Division of the Federal High Court on Friday ordered the final forfeiture of the N13 billion recovered in a flat in Ikoyi, Lagos. The money- $43,449,947; £27,800; and N23,218,000 – was stashed away in iron cabinets and ‘Ghana-must-go’ bags in the apartment at Flat 7B, Osborne Towers, Ikoyi. The Economic…
LAGOS JANUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Lawyer and activist, Mr. Festus Keyamo, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to order an investigation of the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Lawal K. Idris, and relieve him of his position over the detention of two online journalists and brothers, Messrs Daniel and Tim Elombah. Mr. Keyamo made the call in an…
LAGOS JANUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Leicester Crown Court in the United Kingdom on Wednesday sentenced a Nigerian businessman to three years and six months imprisonment. The convict, Walter Wagbatsoma, 47, was imprisonment for money laundering. This was even as he was disqualified from being a company director for six years. The Lincolnshire police said Wagbatsoma fraudulently…
LAGOS JANUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Family of Toheeb Olayiwola, who was allegedly killed by an official of the Nigeria Customs Service at Abule-Egba, Lagos state has raised the alarm that officials of Lagos State Task Force are demanding for the payment of the sum of Two Hundred and Fifty thousand Naira before the corpse of Olayiwola will…
LAGOS JANUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ghana’s Aviation Minister Cecelia Dapaah has warned British Airways (BA) it could face sanctions, after reports of bed bugs on some of the airline’s flights into the country. A British newspaper reported this week that a BA flight to Accra was grounded at London’s Heathrow Airport for four hours, after the insects…
LAGOS JANUARY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Fulani man has been apprehended in Ogun State after stabbing his tribesman to death during an argument today. .According to an eyewitness report, the suspected killer, Abubakar, stabbed the deceased 3 times in the stomach and back in Ilishan Remo. Abubakar, still stained with the blood of the deceased, was however…
