LAGOS AUGUST 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have intercepted consignments of captagon, popularly known as the ‘Jihadi drug’, and millions of opioid pills worth more than N6.2 billion at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos. The NDLEA Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday….
LAGOS AUGUST 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s records with United States law enforcement agencies has taken another turn with opposition parties demanding that the documents be made public. The African Democratic Congress (ADC) and the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) have questioned the President’s decision to oppose the release of the records, insisting that Nigerians…
LAGOS AUGUST 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos Zonal Directorate 2 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday, August 26, facilitated the extradition of the duo of Mudashiru Afeez Olawale and Adebola Festus Adekunle to the United States of America, U.S., to face prosecution for allegedly sexu@lly extorting two teenage boys in the U.S.,…
LAGOS AUGUST 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Operatives of the Nigeria Police Force attached to the National Central Bureau of INTERPOL, Lagos Annex, have rescued two Colombian nationals allegedly lured to Nigeria and held captive by a human trafficking syndicate. The victims, identified as Maria Camila Rodas Ortiz and Yuliet Fernanda Rios Mesa, were rescued following actionable intelligence received…
LAGOS AUGUST 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Moses Itauma is determined to turn Saturday’s historic upset into a positive. Itauma suffered a shocking loss to Filip Hrgovic this weekend inside London’s O2 Arena, getting stopped in the ninth round of a fight for the vacant IBF heavyweight world title. Itauma, 21, was attempting to be boxing’s youngest heavyweight world…
LAGOS AUGUST 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-An aspiring lawyer and beloved taekwondo world champion has tragically been found dead at 19 years old. Isabelle Sava, a black belt and law student at Queen Mary University in Mile End, East London, was tragically found dead this week. She is believed to have died from cardiac arrest in her…
LAGOS AUGUST 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI, has submitted records relating to President Bola Tinubu’s 1993 drug-trafficking and money-laundering case to Beryl Howell, a judge of the US District Court for the District of Columbia. Peoples Gazette reports that the FBI hand-delivered the records to the court on Friday and requested that they remain under…
LAGOS AUGUST 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Council for the Safeguarding of the Homeland (CNSP), the ruling military Junta in Niger Republic, says soldiers within its military forces attempted a coup on Saturday. Heavy gunfire and explosions were reported early Saturday morning in several parts of Niamey, Niger’s capital city. The assailants targeted the city’s Diori Hamani…
