LAGOS JANUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two unidentified young middle-aged men were in the early hours of Monday set ablaze by an angry mob along Akai Effa road opposite Orange Resorts in Calabar Municipality LGA. The two victims were caught at about 4:00 am while robbing a barber’s shop very close to the popular resort. An eyewitness, Miss…
LAGOS DECEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar is in touch with the parties involved in the months-long detention of journalist and human rights activist, Agba Jalingo. Segun Showunmi, Atiku’s spokesperson gave the hint in a post on his official Twitter handle: @SegunShowunmi on Saturday. The former Vice President’s aide wrote: “The Agba Jalingo case is…
LAGOS DECEMBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Some suspected kidnappers have allegedly dropped letters to family members of a US-based Professor of Fine Arts, Prof Onoyom Ukpong kidnapped on Thursday. The letters allegedly written by the victim were reportedly dropped at various family houses of the victim particularly, Prof Ukpong family cmpound, No 9 Mbukpa Street, Calabar South Local…
LAGOS AUGUST 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-British judge has said he will grant a firm called Process and Industrial Developments Ltd (P&ID) the right to attempt to seize some $9 billion in assets from the Nigerian government over an aborted gas project. The company was awarded $6.6 billion in an arbitration decision over the failed 2010 project to…