LAGOS MARCH 8TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-Nigeria Women’s Football League player, Ihotu John, has regained her freedom after being kidnapped along the Benin Expressway last Friday, PUNCH Sports Extra reports. Ihotu’s relative, Blessing Ojima, confirmed that the player was released on Thursday after her family paid a ransom of N1.5m to her abductors. According to Ojima, the kidnappers…
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 NOVEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An Arizona man was arrested Monday after allegedly threatening to kill President-elect Donald Trump in a series of Facebook videos, including one in which he appears to hold up an AR-15-style rifle, according to court documents. Manuel Tamayo-Torres faces a felony charge of threatening the president-elect after he made several threats against…
LAGOS APRIL 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) on April 2 took into custody Ifediora Oli, a dual citizen of Nigeria and the United States, for allegedly conniving with two persons to defraud the District of Columbia public transit system after securing a Covid-19 testing kit contract worth more than half a million dollars….
LAGOS MARCH 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The hope to migrate by health and care workers with their dependents from Nigeria and other countries to the United Kingdom have been dashed with the ban to that effect on Monday. The ban by the UK Government is coming over two months after similar stoppage of dependents migrating to the UK…
LAGOS MARCH 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Human rights activist, Omoyele Sowore, has confirmed that he will be travelling to the United States of America Friday night to reunite with his family. This comes after a Federal High Court in Abuja ordered the release of his passport following the decision of the Nigerian government to withdraw its treasonable felony…
LAGOS MARCH 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A London morgue where the remains of former Senate President, late Dr Joseph Wayas, is kept, has collected the sum of £6,710, amounting to N13,366,320, from members of his family, before allowing them access to the body. This was disclosed in a report by Justice Maurice Odey Eneji, Chairman of Joe Wayas’…
LAGOS JANUARY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has paid a condolence visit to the Al-Kadriyar family, whose six daughters were abducted on January 2. During the visit to the family on Tuesday, Obi expressed concerns over the rate of kidnappings in the country and urged the government to curb insecurity. Obi said,…