LAGOS AUGUST 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Prime suspect in the case of three missing girls from Takoradi, Ghana, Samuel Udoetuk, has reportedly revealed that the females were sold for N1.8m each in Nigeria. According to Bureau of National Investigations sources, Udoetuk confessed that the girls were sold to an operator of a baby factory at Onitsha in Anambra…
LAGOS AUGUST 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Activists and members of a civil society group, Global Integrity Crusade Network (GICN), have urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to order the arrest and prosecution of a former Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Michael Kaase Aondoakaa (SAN), in the next seven days for alleged…
LAGOS AUGUST 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the February 23 presidential election, Atiku Abubakar, and his party has insisted that President Muhammadu Buhari was not qualified to have contested the poll and as such, should be disqualified by the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal. Besides, the petitioners in their final address to…
LAGOS AUGUST 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nine Chinese and eight Ukrainian seamen were abducted on Thursday when two merchant vessels came under attack in Cameroonian waters, sources said on Friday. “Seventeen Chinese and Ukrainians were kidnapped… (of whom) nine (are) Chinese who were abducted on one of the ships,” an official in the port of Douala told AFP….
LAGOS AUGUST 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Nigeria coach Samson Siasia has been banned for life and fined $50,000 by Fifa for agreeing to ‘the manipulation of matches.’ Siasia was coach of Nigeria between 2010-2011 and for a spell in 2016 but the time period when Fifa believes he committed his infractions is unclear. He has also served…
LAGOS AUGUST 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Group under the aegis of Malcolm Omirhobo Foundation has condemned in strong term the Nigeria government attack on the media which suppose to the voice of the oppressed masses in the country. The Foundation is equally disturbed at the government wanton violation of the fundamental rights of Nigerians to move freely, associate…
LAGOS AUGUST 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal High Court in Lagos has granted N20 million bail to Abdullahi Babalele, son-in-law of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar. Justice Nicholas Oweibo admitted Mr Babalele to bail on Thursday with one surety in like sum. The judge said the surety must be resident in Lagos and…
LAGOS AUGUST 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Russian pilot was hailed as a hero Thursday for safely landing an Airbus carrying more than 230 people in a Moscow corn field after a bird strike. The Ural Airlines A321 flying to Crimea hit a flock of seagulls shortly after take-off from Moscow’s Zhukovsky airport early Thursday, the Rosaviatsia air…
