LAGOS JULY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), have intercepted 22 blocks of heroin weighing 23.55kilogrammes concealed in packs of baby food at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja, Lagos. The consignment with a street value of over N4.5billion came from Johannesburg, South Africa on board a South African Airways…
LAGOS JULY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Several people have been killed in a shooting at a shopping centre in the Danish capital Copenhagen, police say. Announcing the deaths, police chief Soeren Thomassen said a 22-year-old ethnic Dane” has been arrested in connection with the attack. Mr Thomassen said the motive was unclear, but that he could not rule…
LAGOS JULY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Rector of the Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Dr. Adeoye Odedeji, has advised graduates of the institution to give back to their alma mater. The Rector said the only way MAPOLY could be greater and sustained is for the alumni to contribute to its development. Odedeji said this during the…
LAGOS JULY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Some families in Kenya are eating just once a day, or not at all, because of rising food prices, writes the BBC’s Catherine Byaruhanga in Nairobi. Early in the morning, I find Florence Kambua hunched over, digging through the dump site outside her front door to collect plastic, glass, clothes – anything…
LAGOS JULY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Lagos State Police Command has arrested two suspected kidnappers, Favour Tochukwu and Ebenezer Chidiebere. They, allegedly, usually lure their victims to their houses while pretending to legitimate buyers of goods. One of the suspects, Tochukwu was nabbed when their latest victim raised an alarm inside the banking hall where he was taken…
LAGOS JULY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Ogun State Police Command has arrested a young man for allegedly using a girlfriend for money making rituals. The young girl after being used for rituals, started barking like a dog . Her behaviour attracted the Police who took her to the Station, but she became wild while she was also…
LAGOS JULY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Church will let justice take its course after the High Court in Malawi sentenced a priest to 30 years in prison for the murder of a man with albinism, said Archbishop George Desmond Tambala, president of the Malawian bishops’ conference. Five other suspects were handed life sentences. One of them was…
LAGOS JULY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Germany signed an agreement on Friday to begin sending hundreds of Benin bronzes back to what is now Nigeria, rubber-stamping the biggest effort yet by a European country to return the looted artworks. Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and Culture Minister Claudia Roth signed the deal with their Nigerian counterparts in Berlin after…
