LAGOS DECEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen have kidnapped a high court judge, Justice Joy Uwanna, and her driver in the Oron Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State. The female Judge was whisked away by her abductors with her driver while the police orderly was shot dead on the spot. The incident occurred on Monday along the…
LAGOS DECEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A second-hand dealer has won a case to keep the €4.2m (£3.6m; $4.6m) proceeds from the sale of a rare African mask he found in an elderly French couple’s attic. He had been brought in to help clear the attic of the couple, who sold him the mask for €150 (£129; $165)….
LAGOS DECEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The death toll from China’s worst earthquake since 2014 rose to more than 130 as the government sent a top official to oversee recovery efforts. Some 113 people were killed in mostly rural areas of Gansu province, state broadcaster China Central Television reported on Tuesday. The death toll in neighboring Qinghai climbed…
LAGOS DECEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As the yuletide season gets to it’s climax, Nigerians have been urged to remember the Armed Forces and other security agencies in prayers. Convener, Prayer and Support For the Nigerian Armed Forces and other Security Agencies PSNAFSA, Ambassador Mary Abayomi-Fatile said, this became necessary following the doggedness with which terrorism and other…
LAGOS DECEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former Zonal Pastor at the Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministry, Sunday Baruwa Olowoyeye, has instituted a suit against the Founder and General Overseer of the denomination, Dr. Daniel Olukoya at the Lagos High Court, Ikeja, in which he alleges that the foremost cleric caused the police to illegally detain him…
LAGOS DECEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The police in Anambra State have arrested a couple for trafficking a one month old baby into Anambra State from Lagos. The couple confessed to buying the child for N30,000, after they were arrested at Bridgehead Onitsha, while travelling into Anambra from Lagos, after a tip-off by a fellow passenger. In a…
LAGOS DECEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The camp of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has reacted to President Bola Tinubu’s intervention in the lingering political crisis in Rivers State. Naija News reports that the president resolved the crisis during a meeting with the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State, former…
LAGOS DECEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Police in Uganda are holding a 110-year-old man over accusations of stabbing his 109-year-old wife to death for denying him conjugal rights. The Daily Monitor newspaper reports that Dominic Babiiha allegedly murdered Costansio Bakasisa with a billhook on Saturday at their matrimonial home in Kahunga, in the western district of Ntungamo. The…
