LAGOS DECEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A man from China was reported to the police five times in three days due to his resemblance to a North Korean defector. The doppelganger: The Chinese man in the dark blue jacket has a similar hairstyle, facial features and expression of the North Korean, who is identified as Zhu Xianjian by…
LAGOS DECEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested three suspects at the Malam Aminu Kano International Airport (MAKIA) while attempting to smuggle 1,144 Automated Teller Machine (ATM) cards out of the country. The suspects are Abdullahi Usman, Musa Abubakar and Abdulwahid Auwalu. They were arrested by the Kano Zonal Command of…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Rapper Oladimeji Aloba aka Mohbad an associate of Naira Marley was arrested over the weekend in Cyprus. The rapper made this known in his Instagram story. “I’ve been stuck at the Cyprus airport prison. The show promoter got me fucked up,” he wrote. Mohbad, who had performed at some shows in the…
LAGOS OCTOBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Report has revealed that the man who put himself up for sale for N20m has been arrested by the Kano State Hisbah Board. The Commander General of Kano Hisbah Board revealed in BBC Pidgin programme why the man was arrested. Recall that Naija News earlier reported that a young man who is…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Following the Fuel scarcity in the United Kingdom about six Nigerians have been arrested for hoarding Fuel in Jerry cans and selling at an outrageous prices. According to the UK police spokesma Greg Smith, some of the Nigerians arrested include Kenneth Obiora (M), chukwuma Ahamba (M), Gift Nwankwo (F), Kelechi Amadi (M),…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian, Okey Eze, who claims to be a tiler by profession has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja with 350 wraps of cocaine worth over N2.3billion in street value. The 38-year-old Eze, from Orji River, in Oji-River Local…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A 76-year-old man, Adeniyi Adebisi Samuel, has been beheaded by some ritual killers in the Akanran area of Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. Parading the suspected ritual killers at the Amotekun headquarters, Dandaru, Ibadan, on Tuesday, the Deputy Commandant of Amotekun in the state, Mr. Akinro Kazeem, said the suspects were arrested…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)- Sudanese authorities said they had foiled an attempted coup on Tuesday, accusing plotters loyal to ousted president Omar al-Bashir of a failed bid to derail the revolution that removed him from power in 2019 and ushered in a transition to democracy. Sudan’s military said 21 officers and a number of soldiers…