LAGOS MARCH 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian conman who duped women out of almost £200,000 in “romance frauds” has avoided deportation after judges ruled his wife and children could not be properly cared for by his home country’s health system. Emmanuel Jack, 35, was jailed for three years in 2014 after he tricked six women he met…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A bus driver, Ali Isah, has narrated how he escaped gunmen who kidnapped Afenifere Youth Council President, Prince Eniola Ojajuni, last week Monday in Ondo state. In a video exclusively obtained by The Nation, the driver who suffered gunshot injury from the kidnappers said the incident occurred at Akuni, an Ondo bother…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Executive Director of Project Implementation at the Federal Housing Authority (FHA), Remi Omowaiye on Monday escaped assassination by a whisker along Osogbo/Ilesa road. The Nation gathered that the incident occurred around 2:05 PM on Monday in front of Ilesa West local government area when the ex-Commissioner for Works was en route…
LAGOS JANUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A judge has sentenced US President-elect Donald Trump to an “unconditional discharge,” bringing to an end the first criminal trial of a former US president. The sentence in the hush-money payment case means the incoming president has been spared any penalty, including jail time or a fine, but he will still take…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-42-year-old nurse, Alice Loksha, who was abducted in 2018 by Boko Haram insurgents in Borno State, has regained freedom Speaking with newsmen in Maiduguri, the state capital, on Friday, the Theatre Commander of the Joint Task Force, Operation Hadin Kai, North-East, Major General Wahdi Shuaibu, said she was captured while working at…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Professor Oguejiofor Ujam, dean of the School of General Studies at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, who was recently kidnapped along the Opi-Nsukka-Ugwogo-Nike Road, has escaped captivity, according to the Enugu State Police. Enugu State police spokesperson, Daniel Ndukwe, confirmed the professor’s escape in a statement on Tuesday, October 29. Professor Ujam…
LAGOS OCTOBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed “nothing will deter us, we will keep going until victory,” after a drone struck his vacation home in northern Israel Saturday as the military continued its operations in Lebanon and Gaza. Netanyahu, 74, was not in the area when the drone was fired from Lebanon at his…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A terrorist plot to murder Pope Francis in Indonesia has been foiled by local law enforcement with seven suspects arrested with potential links to ISIS, just one month on from a similar situation experienced by Taylor Swift. The Head of the Catholic Church began his tour of the Asian nation, which is…