LAGOS JULY 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Leading Senegalese opposition politician Ousmane Sonko was arrested on Friday for allegedly stealing a gendarme’s phone and posting a “subversive” message. The firebrand politician, a thorn in the flesh of President Macky Sall, has faced a number of legal woes, which he says are aimed at keeping him out of politics. His…
LAGOS JULY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Vice President of Nigeria and the Presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Atiku Abubakar, has escaped death as the Nigerian Police have confirmed the arrest of two suspected Boko Haram terrorists on a mission to attack the former Vice president, residence in Yola, Adamawa State. The spokesperson for the…
LAGOS JULY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-It was a rude shock to a notorious drug kingpin who specializes in sponsoring young Nigerians to traffick Class A drugs to Europe especially Italy, when operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, stormed his hotel room in Okota area of Lagos late on Friday 21st July when he was…
LAGOS JULY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-19-year-old student identified as Benjamin Nnamani Daberechi has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) for attempting to export 7.2 kilograms of methamphetamine concealed in crayfish to Europe where he was going for undergraduate studies. It was learnt that the Daberechi who was on his way…
LAGOS JULY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 64-year-old man has been arrested in southern Russia for the shooting death of a former submarine commander who is alleged by some in Ukraine to have killed more than 20 civilians in a long-range missile strike last year. Sergei Denisenko was detained on suspicion of shooting former 2nd Capt. Stanislav Rzhitsky,…
LAGOS JUNE 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The council chairman of the Ivo Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, Mr Emmanuel Ajah, has confirmed the arrest of eight kidnappers who killed a staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Emmanuel Igwe, along Ishiagu-Mpu road last Sunday. Recall that the suspected kidnappers abducted the wife of the victim and…
LAGOS JUNE 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 32-year-old man was arrested in Piet Retief , South Africa on Thursday, June 15, after allegedly shooting and killing five members of his family. The victims include a grandmother, three children, and a 22-year-old woman. The incident occurred at around 6:15 p.m. on Thursday. According to reports, a family member returned…
LAGOS JUNE 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Detectives assigned to the Narcotics Division charged a female flight attendant for breaches of the Dangerous Drugs Act (DDA) on Saturday, June 10. Forty-seven-year-old Michelle Virgo who is a dual citizen in Jamaica and the United States (US) was charged with possession of cocaine, dealing in cocaine, attempting to export cocaine, and…