LAGOS MAY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS )-For Olajide Ayorinde, a worker with the Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company attached to the Imo unit in Abeokuta, Ogun State, he would not forget in a hurry Thursday, April 23; day residents of Isale Igbein/Grammar School area of Abeokuta attacked him for distributing electricity bills during lockdown. The state, including Lagos…
LAGOS MARCH 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Chief Magistrates’ Court in Iyaganku, Oyo State on Thursday ordered that three friends, who allegedly beat a man to death, be remanded in a correctional facility, pending legal advice. The police charged Augustine Andy, 42; Johnson Adegwu , 21, and a 17-year-old with two counts of conspiracy and culpable homicide. Chief…
LAGOS JANUARY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Residents of Agility community at Mile 12 area of Lagos State are presently filled with anger. This followed the death of an 18-year-old girl, Amaka Nweke. Amaka was said to have been beaten to death by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mike Nweke, for not only dating a Yoruba guy, but also…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria suffered their heaviest defeat in Fifa Beach Soccer World Cup history when they were beaten 10-1 by Portugal on Friday evening in Paraguay. It was the worst result for the Super Sand Eagles in any competition since their 12-6 loss to Italy at the 2017 World Cup in Bahamas. Coach Audu…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has apologized after his security aides assaulted a journalist at the banquet hall of the presidential villa in Abuja where the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM) chaired by Abike Dabiri-Erewa organised a summit. It would be recall that Abayomi Adeshida, a photo-journalist with Vanguard was taking photographs of the vice president at…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two videos are now making the rounds on the protest of students of the Federal University, Oye Ekiti, Ekiti State, which turned violent on Tuesday, allegedly leading to the death of one policeman and four students. According to available reports, the students were protesting over erratic power supply by the Benin Electricity…
LAGOS SEPEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)- Indian police have discovered a large-scale BTC scam worth $67.6 mln, its facilitator beaten to death for cheating his partners Police in the Indian Uttarakhand state have found out about a big Bitcoin scam after its orchestrator, Abdul Shakoor, was killed by his former crime partners for cheating them. Massive Bitcoin…
LAGOS MARCH 22ND(NEWSRANGERS)-Super Eagles’ Odion Ighalo scored a first-half penalty kick, while Henry Onyekuru and Moses Simon scored in the second half for Nigeria to beat Seychelles 3-1 in Asaba, to end the 2019 AFCON qualifiers as Group E winners.