LAGOS JULY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-British boxing legend Chris Eubank’s 29-year-old son Sebastian was found dead on a beach in Dubai on Friday. He was 29. Eubank confirmed Sebastian’s death in a statement, saying the family was “devastated” by Sebastian’s death, according to the Daily Mail. “Never did I ever imagine I would write these words or…
LAGOS JULY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Armed raiders killed at least 35 people and torched homes in five villages in northwest Nigeria’s Zamfara state, police said on Saturday, in the latest deadly attack to hit the violence-torn region. Local residents said up to 43 villagers were killed in the raid late on Thursday. “Thirty-five people were killed by…
LAGOS JULY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Supporters of former South African president Jacob Zuma are protesting his imprisonment, burning trucks, commercial property, and blocking major roads in KwaZulu-Natal province. They are demanding that he be released from prison. Zuma started serving a 15-month sentence for contempt of court earlier this week. His bid to be released from the…
LAGOS JULY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The operation that led to Haitian President Jovenel Moïse’s middle-of-the-night assassination was in the planning for at least a month, and came together during meals around Port-au-Prince and at a home where most of the men accused of the slaying were staying, several people who interviewed some of the suspects told the…
LAGOS JULY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Chief Sunday Adeyemo, a.k.a Sunday Igboho, has approached the Federal High Court, Abuja, for the release of his aides arrested by operatives of the Department of State Services at his house in the Soka area of Ibadan on July 1. Counsel for the Yoruba Nation agitator, Chief Yomi Aliyu (SAN), told our…
LAGOS JULY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A document has revealed that President Muhammadu Buhari’s aide on social media, Lauretta Onochie is still a card-carrying member of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and equally participating actively in party politics. Senator Kabir Gaya led Senate Committee on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Thursday screened Onochie in consideration of…
LAGOS JULY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A driver using a Dangote Sugar Refinery truck to allegedly smuggle rice has been arrested by the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) said on Tuesday. The Abuja commandant of the NCS, Hussein Ejibunu, said on Tuesday that two accomplices were arrested alongside the driver at Suleja, Niger State. He said the truck was…
LAGOS JULY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Boko Haram and Islamic State West African Province terrorists have been taxing residents of Marte, Abadam, Kukawa and Guzamala areas of Borno state for road use. That is aside from the levies farmers and fishermen have to pay on their produce. SaharaReporters gathered that the failure of residents to comply with this…
