LAGOS JANUARY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Pune City police, India, has given details on the arrest of Nigerian ‘engineer-turned-drug kingpin’, Folarin Abdulazees Andoyi, for being in possession of cocaine worth Rs 2.16 crore in 2022. The police said 50-year-old Andoyi, a mechanical engineer, had been active in the cocaine racket for over a decade and had been…
LAGOS JANUARY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The United States announced Thursday it was offering a reward of up to $10 million for a man described as the “terror mastermind” of a bloody hotel attack in Kenya four years ago. It said it is seeking information on Mohamoud Abdi Aden, describing him as a leader of the Somalia-based Al-Shabaab…
LAGOS JANUARY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-All outbound flights were grounded until around 9am Eastern Time (2pm GMT) as the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) worked to restore its Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM) system, which alerts pilots of potential hazards along a flight route. As of 3pm GMT 4,948 flights within, into or out of the US have…
LAGOS JANUARY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)- Turkish Airlines flight number 606 was today forced to return to the ground after a bird strike during take-off. The A330 however had to fly around Kampala and Entebbe for over an hour to burn fuel to achive the right weight for landing. According to the Uganda Civil Aviation Authority, the regulator of…
LAGOS JANUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The London Metropolitan Police, United Kingdom, has said it is probing a 71-year-old man who was arrested at Heathrow Airport on Sunday on suspicion of rape This is as controversy surrounded the arrest of the founder of DAAR Communications Plc, Chief Raymond Dokpesi, who was delayed by the Met Police at Heathrow…
LAGOS JANUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The founder of DAAR Communications Plc, High Chief Raymond Dokpesi, has reportedly been released from the custody of the police in the United Kingdom. An online platform, The Whistler earlier reported that Chief Dokpesi was arrested at Heathrow Airport in London on Sunday, January 8, 2022. However, the DAAR Communications management in…
LAGOS JANUARY 9TH (NEWSRAGERS)-Iran’s judiciary has sentenced three more anti-government protesters to death on charges of “waging war on God”, its Mizan news agency reported on Monday, defying growing international criticism over its fierce crackdown on demonstrators. Iran hanged two other men on Saturday, one of them a karate champion with several national titles, in…
LAGOS JANUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-U.S. President Joe Biden approved an emergency declaration for California after a week of storms killed at least 12 people in the past 10 days and knocked out power for hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses in the state. The emergency declaration authorizes the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to coordinate…