LAGOS DECEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Muammar Al-Ali knew at once that the bearded man filmed after being freed by Syrian rebels from a prison in Hama when the city fell to them this week was his brother, Ali, who had been missing for nearly 40 years. “Your heart tells you this is your brother,” said Al-Ali at…
LAGOS MARCH 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian senator Ike Ekweremadu, his wife and a medical middleman have been found guilty of trafficking a man to Britain to provide a kidney, a statement from the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said on Thursday. Ekweremadu, 60, his wife Beatrice, 56, and Nigerian doctor Obinna Obeta, 51, were convicted in a British…
LAGOS JANUARY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Another batch of 30 students and a teacher of Federal Government College, Birnin Yauri, Kebbi State, have been released after 207 days in captivity. The freed teacher and students arrived in Birnin Kebbi, Kebbi State capital, on Saturday night with the state government saying that they would undergo medical screening and support…
LAGOS AUGUST 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A leader of Nigeria’s Jewish community, jailed for a month without charge after being arrested with three visitors from Israel, has been freed. Authorities suspected the visitors had links with a separatist group which had hailed their arrival in Nigeria. Lizben Agha, from the Igbo ethnic group, was released after appeals, including…
LAGOS JANUARY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-“I was meant to be killed, but my abductors sold me to herdsmen. I saw hell and I don’t wish my enemy such.” Those were the exact words of the Public Relations Officer of the Edo State Command of the Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, Mrs Bridget Esene, who was kidnapped on Sunday…
LAGOS JULY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The suspended chairman of the anti-graft agency, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, has been released. He was released on Wednesday evening. A family source who asked not to be named informed this newspaper that Mr Magu arrived at his official residence at about 5 p.m. in the Maitama District of the Nigerian capital. Although…
LAGOS AUGUST 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Soldiers in Taraba State have killed three policemen who went to arrest a wanted kidnap kingpin and set the suspect free. This was disclosed on Wednesday by the Force Public Relations Officer, Deputy Commissioner of Police Frank Mba. According to Mba, the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has ordered full-fledged investigations…
LAGOS JUNE 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 101 -year- old year prisoner, Pa Celestine Egbunuche has been set free from the person by the Imo State Government. Egbunuche, who would be 101 years on August 4, has for over 18 years lived in desolation and hopelessness within the confines of Enugu Maximum Prison. It was gathered that his…