LAGOS NOVEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Anas Saidu, a 26-year-old man who kidnapped and killed a 16-year-old boy, Tijjani Saidu in Kano has made a bizarre request. The young man has pleaded for a public execution by hanging, according to Daily Trust. He equally begs and wants the public to help him beg the victim’s father for forgiveness…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The wife of Olugbenga Ale, the Chief of Staff to the Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, has been kidnapped. The police and sources within the government house confirmed this to PREMIUM TIMES. Mrs Ale was abducted at Owena in Idanre council of the state on Thursday night. The incident happened hours after…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Atiku Abubakar has reacted to the claims by the All Progressives Congress (APC) which accused him of making plans to get the presidential ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ahead of the 2023 election. The former vice-president on Thursday, November 26, said he has not initiated discussions with anyone about contesting…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Abubakar Mohammed Sani, a serving Deputy Comptroller of Nigerian Correctional Service, NCoS, was on Friday arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, before Justice Hadiza Sabi’u Shagari of the Federal High Court Katsina on a six count charge of conspiracy and obtaining by false pretense. The defendant allegedly used his…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Six people in China, four of whom are doctors, have been sentenced to prison for illegally harvesting organs from patients, often car accident victims or those with severe brain damage. A court in Anhui province has handed down terms of 10 to 28 months to the group of six, declaring them guilty…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Super Eagles of Nigeria have dropped three places from 29th to 32nd in the latest FIFA rankings released yesterday by the world football governing body. The Three-time African champions who had poor outings against the Leone Stars of Sierra Leone in the ongoing 2022 AFCON qualifiers also dropped in the continental ranking…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-United States President Donald Trump says he will relinquish power if the Electoral College affirms Democrat Joe Biden’s win but he signals he may never formally concede defeat, Bloomberg reports. The 74-year-old Republican candidate, who lost his re-election bid, also declined to say if he would attend Biden’s inauguration next year, as is…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As the Yuletide season approaches, more smuggled items — mainly foreign parboiled rice, tomato paste, frozen chicken and cars — are still being smuggled into the country in large scale, closure of Nigerian borders notwithstanding. Investigations by The Guardian revealed that tonnes of foreign rice flooded Nigerian markets, after the EndSARS unrest…
