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http://ift.tt/2uBPvHS LAGOS JULY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Kayode Sanni, an illegal immigrant who headed a gang which used the identities of MPs, judges and police officers to con the taxpayer out of millions of pounds was jailed for more than five years. Sanni, 38, received a jail term of five years and three months for his part in…

http://ift.tt/2tX73jR LAGOS JULY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS) No fewer than ten people have been reported dead as a container fell from a trailer and compressed two full loaed commercial buses in Ojota motor park, Lagos. The trailer, according to available information, lost control as it moved near the buses, with the container falling on them. Only three…

http://ift.tt/2tAnwYM LAGOS JULY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Family members of a comedian, Chinedu Paul aka Think Twice has refuted the allegation that he is a member of the dreaded Badoo cult group. Speaking at a joint press briefing between JPTS and the family of Chinedu Paul at Igando in Lagos, the fiancée, Esther Demenongu and sister of the…

http://ift.tt/2tzQPLh Supporters of the Indigenous People of Biafra march in Port Harcourt in January in support of then-president-elect Donald Trump. (Agence France-Presse/Getty Images) By Eromo Egbejule Eromo Egbejule is a Lagos-based journalist covering West Africa. He is working on a documentary about the civil war. In 2006, my freshman year at the University of Nigeria,…

http://ift.tt/2tXMFQp Hameed Ali LAGOS JULY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Spokesperson of the Nigeria Customs Service, Joseph Attah, has said some people cannot access their e-auction portal because of technical problems. The portal was launched on Tuesday by the Comptroller-General, Hameed Ali. However, many interested bidders lamented the unavailability of the platform. Attah said the challenges had already been…