LAGOS MAY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Three Nigerian men have been charged in what investigators said was a sextortion scheme that resulted in the suicide of a 17-year-old Michigan boy. On March 25, 2022, 17-year-old Jordan DeMay, a student and football player at Marquette Senior High School, was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. His death prompted…
LAGOS MAY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A wealthy Nigerian politician, his wife and their “middleman” have been jailed for an organ-trafficking plot, after bringing a man to the UK from Lagos. Senator Ike Ekweremadu, 60, and his wife Beatrice, 56, wanted a new kidney for their 25-year-old daughter Sonia, the Old Bailey heard. The pair and Dr Obinna…
LAGOS MAY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Junior doctors are being lured to Australia with job adverts promising A$240,000 (£127,600) salaries and 20 days off a month to “travel, swim and surf in the sun”. In a reference to the popular autobiography and TV series This is Going to Hurt, which was written by Dr Adam Kay, a former…
LAGOS MAY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Russia accused Ukraine Wednesday of attempting a drone attack on the Kremlin aimed at assassinating the country’s strongman leader Vladimir Putin. Video of the alleged incident shows a bright explosion over the massive complex — which houses Putin’s residence — but Russian embassy officials said no one was killed or injured. “The…
LAGOS MAY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 13-year-old boy gunned down eight fellow pupils and a security guard in a Belgrade school on Wednesday in a planned attack, prompting Serbia’s president to announce tougher curbs on gun ownership. Using two handguns that belonged to his father, the boy fired first at the guard and three girls in a…
LAGOS MAY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Aranda Overseas Corp, a company belonging to Seyi Tinubu, purchased a London mansion which the Nigerian government had tried to seize as property bought with the proceeds of crime, Bloomberg has reported. Seyi, who is the son of the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, bought the property for £9 million ($10.8 million) through the…
LAGOS MAY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-One of the buses conveying stranded Nigerians from Khartoum, Sudan, to Port Sudan caught fire in the early hours of Monday, The PUNCH learnt. 26 buses conveying the stranded Nigerians left Al Razi around 12 am on Monday for Port Sudan where they will move into Saudi Arabia. According to the Chairman, Nigerians…
LAGOS MAY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A gas leak killed 11 people in India on Sunday, an official said, in the latest deadly industrial accident in the vast developing economy of 1.4 billion people. The gas leak happened in Giaspura, an industrial area of Ludhiana in the northern state of Punjab. “Eleven deaths are confirmed,” Mandeep Singh Sidhu,…