LAGOS APRIL 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)- North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is “alive and well”, a top security adviser to the South’s President Moon Jae-in said, downplaying rumours over Kim’s health following his absence from a key anniversary. “Our government position is firm,” said Moon’s special adviser on national security Moon Chung-in, in an interview with…
LAGOS JANUARY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Hundreds of residents of Calabar yesterday marched around the streets of Calabar protesting against the abduction of ace broadcaster, Mr. Peter Tex Etim, by gunmen. Mr. Etim, a staff of Cross River Broadcasting Corporation, CRBC, was kidnapped from his residence a year ago and has not been released by his abductors even after…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Forty-one migrants were found alive in a refrigerated truck in northern Greece on Monday, said police, who arrested the driver. The migrants, of apparent Afghan origin, were mostly in good condition but seven received first aid in hospital, the police said. “The truck contained men and boys. Identifying their nationality will require…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 33-year-old pastor’s wife, Blessing Okechukwu, has appeared before an Ajegunle Magistrates’ Court in Lagos for allegedly burying a live pig in her husband’s church compound, on Tuesday. The Prosecution Counsel, Insp. S.I. Bassey told the court that the defendant committed the offence around 1.40 a.m. on September 3, at the National…
LAGOS DECEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has discounted reports that the driver of Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh, former Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), is dead. Badeh was shot by unidentified gunmen on Tuesday night on his way back from his farm. There had been reports that his driver was shot alongside him,…
LAGOS JUNE 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The family of a former Inspector General of Police, Gambo Jimeta, have denied report that former police chief, Gambo Jimeta is dead. It would be realled that an online medium, not NewsRangers had earlier reported that the former Inspector General police was dead. The family, however, say the report is not true…
