LAGOS AUGUST 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Prime suspect in the case of three missing girls from Takoradi, Ghana, Samuel Udoetuk, has reportedly revealed that the females were sold for N1.8m each in Nigeria. According to Bureau of National Investigations sources, Udoetuk confessed that the girls were sold to an operator of a baby factory at Onitsha in Anambra…
LAGOS AUGUST 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nine Chinese and eight Ukrainian seamen were abducted on Thursday when two merchant vessels came under attack in Cameroonian waters, sources said on Friday. “Seventeen Chinese and Ukrainians were kidnapped… (of whom) nine (are) Chinese who were abducted on one of the ships,” an official in the port of Douala told AFP….
LAGOS AUGUST 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Russian pilot was hailed as a hero Thursday for safely landing an Airbus carrying more than 230 people in a Moscow corn field after a bird strike. The Ural Airlines A321 flying to Crimea hit a flock of seagulls shortly after take-off from Moscow’s Zhukovsky airport early Thursday, the Rosaviatsia air…
LAGOS AUGUST 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Donald Trump threatened undefined retaliation Friday against countries and organizations that issue travel warnings on the United States because of gun violence. “If they did that, we’d just reciprocate,” Trump said during a wide-ranging impromptu gaggle with reporters at the White House, en route to fundraisers in New York. He added:…
LAGOS AUGUST 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Congolese government has ejected the Nigerian Ambassador, Ibim Nkem Charles, and other diplomats in the country from their office. A viral video circulating on social media showed the Nigerian embassy building in Congo being locked up by the Congolese government. In the video, properties belonging to the Nigerian Embassy were thrown…
LAGOS AUGUST 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ghana Immigration Service has arrested a Nigerian lady identified as Chioma Sabina Abaraonye, for trafficking teenage girls into the country and forcing them into prostitution. The arrested Nigerian lady joined the human trafficking business 5 years ago and she reportedly lured young girls with promises of giving them jobs as sales girls…
LAGOS AUGUST 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ten Nigerians have been arrested from a house in west Delhi’s Mohan Garden from where they had allegedly been befriending Indians on social media and cheating them, Indian police said. The arrested Nigerians are aged between 26 and 28 and could not produce visas and passports, prompting the police to also book…
LAGOS AUGUST 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)- As part of the endeavour to support the initiative by the National Identity Management Commission’s (NIMC) to enrol Nigerian adults and children into the National Identity Database (NIDB), VFS Global is pleased to announce the launch of its enrolment centres in the cities of London and Leicester in UK followed by…