LAGOS JULY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Kaduna state chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria, Joseph Hayab, is quoted to have disclosed that some of the abducted students of Bethel Baptist High School, Damishi, Kaduna, have been released after 20 days in captivity. Online media platform, TheCable, reported Hayab to have said this on Sunday. A total of…
LAGOS JULY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, aka Sunday Igboho, may be released by the Cour D’Appal De Cotonou today Monday. This is according to Ibrahim Salami, one of the Benin Republic-based lawyers representing Mr Igboho. In an interview on BBC, Ibrahim Salami explained that Igboho has two more stages to undergo before he…
LAGOS JULY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerians refer to them as bandits – a word that does not quite do justice to what are in fact networks of sophisticated criminals who operate across large swathes of northern-western and central Nigeria. Gangs on motorbikes terrorise the region, stealing animals, kidnapping for ransom, killing anyone who dares confront them and…
LAGOS JULY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A man accused of attempting to stab Mali’s interim President Assimi Goita last week has died in hospital while in the custody of security services, the government said in a statement on Sunday. Goita, a special forces colonel who orchestrated two coups in the last year, escaped unharmed after the assailant tried…
LAGOS JULY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Police Division at Mararaban Jos, in Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State say that its personnel repelled some bandits who had attempted to take over the armoury. Maraban Jos, in the northern axis of Kaduna, is a satellite town where travellers, especially petroleum tanker drivers, converge while on transit. It is…
LAGOS JULY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An unidentified axe man is on a killing spree in Ahaba village in Orodo community in Mbaitoli Council Area of Imo State. It was gathered that he has reportedly beheaded three persons and chopped off the hands of at least five persons. Villagers claim he disappears into thin air after each attack….
LAGOS JULY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 60-year-old woman jumped from the roof of her luxury Midtown building while holding her tiny lap dog Friday afternoon, leaving both dead, according to cops and law-enforcement sources. The unidentified Manhattan woman had just finished her last meal on top of the 46-story apartment complex where she lived — The Victory…
LAGOS JULY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Famous novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has prayed for the Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) during the 2019 elections, Mr. Peter Obi, praising him “for your compassion and your circumspection, for your honesty and your humour.” Describing Obi as her ‘big brother’, Chimamanda in a Facebook tribute to Obi, who recently…
