LAGOS SEPTEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A banker was shot dead last Sunday, while attempting to resist kidnappers who attacked a family at the Federal University of Technology, Owerri (FUTO), Imo State. But while the deceased’s two sons escaped the attack, two female students were abducted by the invaders. The incident, which occurred on September 6, 2026,…
LAGOS DECEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-According to reports,one Emmanuel Ayegbusi,26 years of age,a banker working at an old generation bank, was allegedly arraigned before a Lagos Magistrate’s Court by the bank’s authorities after being found accountable for transferring N2,200,000 without legal procedures from his boss’s account. The defendant was dragged to court for dubiously taking the money…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Two suspected fraudsters, posing as prophets, have been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command for attempting to extort N600,000 from a 64-year-old woman in Lagos. According to the police, the incident happened on Friday when the suspects and their accomplice, still at large, offered the sexagenarian a ride and began to…
LAGOS JANUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A banker implicated in the embezzlement and money-laundering case against Africa’s richest woman, Isabel dos Santos, has been found dead in Lisbon. Nuno Ribeiro da Cunha, 45, managed the account of oil firm Sonangol, formerly chaired by Ms Dos Santos, at the small Portuguese lender EuroBic. His death, on Wednesday, was reported…
LAGOS AUGUST 29TH (NEWRANGERS)-The Federal High Court in Lagos has discharged and acquitted a former Senior Special Adviser to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan on Domestic Affairs, Waripamo-Owei Dudafa, and a banker, Joseph Iwuejo, who were charged with N1.6bn fraud. The court, in a judgment by Justice Mohammed Idris, said it found it difficult to convict the…
LAGOS JUNE 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Photos of a Nigerian woman who lives in Texas has been circulating online as the woman who jumped into the lagoon beneath Third Mainland Bridge on Sunday. The woman, named Toyin, has now refuted the rumors by sharing recent photos of herself via her Instagram account. She captioned the photo: “Am alive,…
LAGOS JANUARY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Dr. Sij Hemal, 27, a second-year urology resident at Cleveland Clinic’s Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute, helped a 41-year-old Nigerian banker, Toyin Ogundipe, deliver her baby on December, 17, 2017. Ogundipe, who resides in both the United Kingdom and Nigeria – went into labor about midway into her flight from Paris-to-New York,…
