LAGOS APRIL 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-It’s Southeast Asia’s biggest ever fraud, amounting to $12.5 billion and embroiling some of Vietnam’s top bankers and officials. And on Thursday, a Ho Chi Minh City court reached its verdict: a death sentence for Truong My Lan, a highflying 67-year-old businesswoman who began life hawking cosmetics from a market stall in…
LAGOS APRIL 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Presidential spokesperson, Ajuri Ngelale, has predicted that with the success so far recorded by President Bola Tinubu administration’s intervention in the foreign exchange market and the refineries resuming full operations, a stronger Naira should be achieved in the first quarter of 2025. Ngelale, who made the projection in a brief made available…
LAGOS APRIL 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s triumphant delegation to South Africa for Tuesday’s Women’s Olympic Football Tournament final qualifying game flew back to the country on Wednesday night, with words of praise for Nigeria’s Charge d’Affaires at the Nigeria High Commission in Pretoria, Alexander Tope Ajayi. With a 1-0 win over the Banyana Banyana in Abuja on…
LAGOS APRIL 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The police command in Kano has launched an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the alleged beheading of a minor, Mohammed Saidu, by an almajiri at Kanwa village, Madobi LGA. The police commissioner in Kano, Usaini Gumel, disclosed this on Friday. The police chief said six-year-old Saidu was allegedly killed by a 16-year-old…
LAGOS APRIL 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A man began stabbing people at a busy Sydney shopping center Saturday before he was fatally shot, leaving multiple people including a small child injured, police said. The suspect attacked nine people at the Westfield Shopping Centre in Bondi Junction, which is in the city’s eastern suburbs, before a police inspector shot…
LAGOS APRIL 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Michael Chidozie was shot multiple times by his wife following an altercation in their home. Natural bodybuilder Michael Chidozie has died after being shot multiple times by his wife, Keaiirra Shavoiyae Chidozie, following an altercation. A member of Chidozie’s family confirmed the news early Monday morning. A local news organization reported the news that…
LAGOS APRIL 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The first democratically elected Governor of the old Abia State and former Nigerian Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu has died at the age of 73. The younger brother of the deceased confirmed this exclusively to ait.live that the ex-Minister died of a prolonged illness which started days after the…
LAGOS APRIL 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A stray dog foraging for food has retrieved an abandoned baby boy in a forest in Abagana, Njikoka Local Government Area of Anambra State. The stray dog was said to have carried the infant across a busy road and kept him in a public glare, apparently for passersby to pick up for…
