LAGOS JULY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The office of the Independent National Electoral Commission in the Igboeze North Local Government Area of Enugu State has been set ablaze by hoodlums. According to a statement released Monday and signed by INEC’s National Commissioner, Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, the attack on the office happened at 11:48pm on…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-It is extremely rare to see Lionel Messi leave a game before the final whistle, so when he was subbed out in the 88th minute of Argentina’s 1-0 World Cup qualifying win over Ecuador on Thursday night, it made headlines and speculation swirled on social media. Was Messi injured? Or was the…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Iran’s supreme leader on Saturday threatened Israel and the US with “a crushing response” over attacks on Iran and its allies. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei spoke as Iranian officials are increasingly threatening to launch yet another strike against Israel after its October 26 attack on the Islamic Republic that targeted military bases and…
LAGOS DECEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen suspected to be Fulani herders, over the weekend, killed a commercial driver identified as Oluwatosin Aruwajoye, and abducted five passengers, while another person, Ibrahim Tiamiyu, was shot in the thigh at the Onigaari axis of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. One of the passengers, however, managed to escape. The driver’s corpse has been…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Operatives of Katsina Police Command has apprehended an Islamic cleric, Jamilu Idris of Sabon-Fegi, Yankara village, Faskari Local Government Area of the state for allegedly masterminding the kidnapping of his cousin’s four year old son, Umar Farouk Kabir. Report made available to NewsRangers by the Katsina State Police Public Relation Officer, PPRO,…
LAGOS AUGUST 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)Chukwuemeka Ezike sends thousands of dollars’ worth of bitcoin a month in order to trade with Chinese exporting companies. In return, he receives spare auto parts, construction equipment, and juices for a family business his father started more than 30 years ago. Ezike works full-time at Singapore-based crypto exchange Huobi as its…
LAGOS OCTOBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Three girls suspected to be prostitutes working in a pub in Nnewi, Nnewi North Local Government Area of Anambra State, on Friday lost their lives in an inferno that ravaged the property. The pub, Padded Joint, located at Ezekwuabo Otolo Nnewi, was said to have caught fire in the early hours of…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-What was anticipated to be the best of Yuletides soon became a gloomy one in 2016, as hopes of millions of Nigerians, including celebrities’ dreams of earning returns on investments, were shattered after Mavrodi Mundial Moneybox (MMM), by far the largest Ponzi scheme ever recorded in the country, announced that it was…