LAGOS MAY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The police at the Lagos State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, Panti has refused to grant Seun Kuti bail after their futile attempt to trick him into writing a statement that would implicate him in the case of an alleged assault on a police officer. SaharaReporters learnt that his lawyer, Adeyinka Olunide-Fusika,…
LAGOS MAY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-One of the lawyers of Afrobeat singer, Seun Kuti, Adeyinka Olumide-Fusika, SAN, has slammed the Nigeria Police force for not Interrogating his client before they decided to handcuff him and also display his pictures on the internet It would be recalled that the Mugshots of the musician surfaced online on Monday and…
LAGOS MAY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s late Afro Beat king, Fela Anikulapo Kuti’s son Seun Kuti has obviously offended the gods and has bitten more than he can chew as the authorities of the Police Service Commission (PSC) on Sunday ordered for his immediate prosecution for slapping an on duty police man. The Inspector of General Police…
LAGOS MAY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As the pressure to “decolonise” has grown throughout Britain’s educational and arts institutions, from showy renaming of buildings, whose benefactors have the slightest link with slavery, to trigger warnings about racial “slurs” in great works of literature, the move to send swathes of objects in British collections back to where they came from…
LAGOS MAY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Popular Nigerian rapper, Folarin Falana, better known as Falz, has undergone knee surgery in the United Kingdom. The songwriter took to his Instagram page to narrate how he sustained an injury on his anterior cruciate ligament (ACL). Falz said he was playing football in November 2022 when he sustained the knee injury….
LAGOS MAY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s outgoing president has issued a declaration over the Benin Bronzes that could have significant consequences in the campaign for the return of these great cultural treasures, as Barnaby Phillips has been finding out. In the dying weeks of his administration, Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari made a decision which has caused a…
LAGOS MAY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Veteran pop singer, Chris Mba, has died after a long battle with heart issues. The musician, who was famous in the 1980s for his jerry curl and hits like ‘Funky Situation’, ‘Baby Don’t Cry’, ‘Making My Way’ and ‘Love Everlasting’, died on Wednesday at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital. Michael Odiong, the…
LAGOS APRIL 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A series of pictures appearing to show jailed singer R. Kelly performing a concert in prison sparked outrage after going viral. The disgraced R&B star is serving 31 years behind bars for offences including assaults on underage girls, sex trafficking and racketeering. So when four images emerged on Tuesday, appearing to show…