LAGOS JUNE 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The internet recently buzzed with the bizarre claim that Sweden had declared sex a sport and was organizing a tournament. International media fell for the gag and reported it as truth. DW delves deep into the issue. There is no official Swedish sex championshipImage: Christophe Gateau/dpa/picture alliance A headline on the website…
LAGOS MARCH 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Ukrainian family seeking asylum from the war back home was turned away from the U.S. border in San Diego on Wednesday after attempting to reach family in California, the San Diego Union-Tribune reports. A spokesperson from Customs and Border Protection told the Union-Tribune that the agency is “looking into the situation.”…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Navy on Tuesday disowned allegations made in parliament by one of its senior officers that soldiers from neighbouring Chad were selling their weapons for $20 or $30, contributing to unrest in northern Nigeria. The navy described the widely reported allegations, made by Commodore Jamila Abubakar Sadiq Malafa on Monday at…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Taliban have denied that one of their top leaders has been killed in a shootout with rivals, following rumours about internal splits in the movement nearly a month after its lightning victory over the Western-backed government in Kabul. Sulail Shaheen, a Taliban spokesman, said Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, former head of…
LAGOS JULY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-With a title, “DISCLAIMER: DISREGARD DOCTORED VIDEO AIMED AT DENIGRATING THE NA”, the Nigerian army in a statement signed by Brig Gen Onyema Nwachukwu, Director Army Public Relations, has denied reports that soldiers of the Nigerian army invaded and destroyed farmlands in Enugu, South East of Nigeria, stressing that the video footage…
LAGOS APRIL 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Air Force has dismissed claims by terror group Boko Haram that it gunned down the missing Alpha jet, which disappeared from radar on Wednesday, March 31. Boko Haram claimed responsibility for downing the aircraft in a viral video. But the Director Public Relations and Information Nigerian Air Force, Air Commodore…
LAGOS JULY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian influencer Ramon Abbas, known online as ‘hushpuppi’ and ‘The Billionaire Gucci Master’ was denied bail and told by a judge on Monday in Chicago that he will remain detained until his trial later this year over money laundering allegations. Appearing at a detention hearing, a court in the Northern District of…
LAGOS JULY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The DSS has denied arresting the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Ibrahim Magu, after its officials escorted him to the Conference Center inside the State House Abuja, to be interviewed by a Presidential Panel constituted by President Muhammadu Buhari to grill him on corruption allegations. The…