LAGOS AUGUST 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A prominent lawyer, Mike Ozekhome (SAN), has said the United States must make a formal request for the extradition of Deputy Commissioner of Police, DCP Abba Kyari. Kyari was indicted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the fraud case against Ramon Abbas aka Hushpuppi in the US. The indictment was followed…
LAGOS JULY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS0-Britain has asked Nigeria to explain where and how Nnamdi Kanu, a separatist leader who holds British citizenship, was arrested after Kanu’s lawyer alleged he had been detained and mistreated in Kenya before being sent back to Nigeria. Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) group which wants part of…
LAGOS JULY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A dispute between Nigerian leaders could jeopardise plans for the return of some of Africa’s most famous artifacts, the Benin Bronzes, which were looted during the colonial era and are now mainly in Western museums, as writer Barnaby Phillips reports. The Bronzes, thousands of metal sculptures and ivory carvings, were seized from…
LAGOS JULY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The British Government has warned that the rise in conflicts can destabilise Nigeria’s democracy in the run-up to the 2023 elections. This is even as governors on the platform of Nigeria Governors’ Forum have declared that the level of insecurity across parts of the country is not only eroding citizens’ safety and…
LAGOS JUNE 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Russia has tested a giant new nuclear submarine in open waters for the first time, just days after a tense standoff in the Black Sea with Britain involving a Royal Navy destroyer. The ‘Belgorod’, believed to be the largest submarine developed anywhere in the world in 30 years, was trialled in the…
LAGOS JUNE 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Ndigbo Unity Forum (NUF) worldwide, a non-governmental organization, has advocated the death penalty for looters of public funds, to eradicate the current spate of corruption in the country. The call was made in a statement jointly signed by NUF’s President, Mr Augustine Chukwudum and Secretary, Mr Tony Igbokwe, respectively on Sunday,…
LAGOS APRIL 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Chibueze Akukwe sticks a label on a bottle of an upmarket Nigerian spirit in a factory in Lagos. He hopes stylish branding will help sell the tipple, fermented in nearby villages using techniques dating back centuries, to upmarket customers. A spirit called Ogogoro, referred to locally as “gin”, is extracted from palm…
LAGOS DECEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)- Here’s a head-scratcher: The use of cash has been declining for years in Britain, but demand for banknotes is skyrocketing. Nobody is quite sure where the money is going. A group of UK lawmakers said on Friday as much as £50 billion ($67.4 billion) in cash was “missing,” and it urged…