LAGOS DECEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 12-year-old chess prodigy from Nigeria was granted asylum in America after racking up trophies while homeless in New York City. The family of chess master Tanitoluwa “Tani” Adewumi was officially given safe haven in the U.S. after fleeing Nigeria in 2017, The Washington Post reports. “It feels amazing, because it’s been…
LAGOS DECEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian National identified as Bethel Ikenna Chimezie, was shot after he unleashed a violent attack on policemen guarding the official residence of the President of Guyana, Dr Irfaan Ali. According to the police, at about 7:30 AM on Thursday morning, the 35-year-old suspect, who works at a at a cleaning service,…
LAGOS DECEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Lambeth Police has confirmed that many people were seriously injured and some have been hospitalised after a large crowd tried to get into a concert in London last night without tickets to watch Nigerian singer Asake perform. Police were called to the Brixton O2 Academy at 9.35 pm on Thursday following reports…
LAGOS DECEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A landslide Friday at a tourist campground in Malaysia left 16 people dead and authorities said 17 others were feared buried at the site on an organic farm outside the capital of Kuala Lumpur. An estimated 94 Malaysians were believed to have been at the campsite in Batang Kali in central Selangor…
LAGOS DECEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Minister Of Transportation, Mu’azu Jaji Sambo has implored the Nigerian Institute of Transportation Technology (NITT) to devise strategies to advance the transportation sector. The Minister said this during the familiarization visit to the institute on Thursday December 15, 2022. Sambo said the strategies would increase NITT’s standard, particularly as there are…
LAGOS DECEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An employee of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Jude Ozuogu, 40, and his wife, Ifeoma Ozuogu, 24, have been sentenced to 13 years imprisonment for child abuse in Enugu. Justice A. C. Ogbuabor of an Enugu State High Court sentenced the couple for maltreating their 10-year-old maid named Chinonye Nnadi in July,…
LAGOS DECEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, on Thursday, said it was still pursuing the N7.1bn fraud case against a former governor of Abia State and current Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Orji Kalu. The EFCC Chairman, Abdulrasheed Bawa, revealed this to State House Correspondents at the 62nd session of the State…
LAGOS DECEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Residents of Port Harcourt are gripped with fear after unidentified corpses litter some streets of the metropolis with nobody or agency coming to remove them. A resident of Abakaliki-Njamanze Street, Mile I, Diobu, who refused to be named, said three corpses were found lying at different points of the area within…
