LAGOS JULY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS0-Britain has asked Nigeria to explain where and how Nnamdi Kanu, a separatist leader who holds British citizenship, was arrested after Kanu’s lawyer alleged he had been detained and mistreated in Kenya before being sent back to Nigeria. Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) group which wants part of…
LAGOS JULY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A dispute between Nigerian leaders could jeopardise plans for the return of some of Africa’s most famous artifacts, the Benin Bronzes, which were looted during the colonial era and are now mainly in Western museums, as writer Barnaby Phillips reports. The Bronzes, thousands of metal sculptures and ivory carvings, were seized from…
LAGOS JULY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Supporters of embattled Yoruba activist Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho have taken to the streets of Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, to protest his arrest and detention by Beninise authorities. The Nation reports Igboho, who was arrested at an airport in Cotonou on Monday night, is still being held by Beninise authorities….
LAGOS JULY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A 36-year-old lady, Chioma Afam, who uses multiple identities and wears hijab to evade security scrutiny has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA in Benue state along with her partner, Peace Chidinma Caleb, 22, for trying to smuggle a total of 296,000 tablets of Diazepam and…
LAGOS JULY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen have again abducted the 80-year-old mother of the Secretary to the Bayelsa State Government, Madam Betinah Benson. The PUNCH learnt that Konbowei Benson’s mother was kidnapped for the second time in eight years on Tuesday night at her residence in the Old Assembly Quarters, Yenagoa. Her abductors were said to have…
LAGOS JULY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Contrary to trending reports that embattled Yoruba Nation Agitator, Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho has been released and flown to Germany, he is still being held by the Beninoise authorities, The Nation can confirm. The Nation reports Igboho was arrested at an airport in Cotonou on Monday night. Professor Wale Adeniran of…
LAGOS JULY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Lagos Human rights lawyer, Chief Malcom Omirhobo, has filed a suit against the federal government at the Federal High Court, Abuja, praying the court to declare Nigeria’s membership of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) as illegal. Aside the Federal Government, other defendants are the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and…
LAGOS JULY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 10 persons reportedly died in a lone auto crash involving an 18-seater commercial Hiace bus, in a town near Ilorin, the Kwara state capital, yesterday. It was gathered that the accident occurred at a location called Iyemoja along the Olooru-Okolowo area of the Ilorin-Jebba expressway in the Moro Local…
