LAGOS DECEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The United States has extradited 64-year-old Babatunde Martins, a Nigerian living in Ghana, to Memphis to stand trial for an indictment charging him with cybercrimes and identity theft. According to the U.S Department of Justice, a federal grand jury in the U.S District Court for the Western District of Tennessee indicted Martins…
LAGOS DECEMBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government has condemned the renewed attacks on Nigerian traders in Ghana, describing it as uncalled for. The Chairman/CEO, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), Abike Dabiri-Erewa, in a statement by the Commission’s Head of Media and Public Relations, Abdur-Rahman Balogun, said the reported cases of attacks on Nigerian shops and traders…
LAGOS DECEMBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The La District Police Command has arrested two persons in possession with human parts at Tse-Addo, near La in Accra. The suspects have been identified as Seth Kofi Laine from Benin and Fred Sasu, a Togolese. The two were apprehended upon a tip-off in a special operation led by Superintendent Anita Abrokwa,…
LAGOS DECEMBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Six persons have been arrested following a bloody clash between Ghanaian and Nigerian traders in Accra. Three persons, according to the police, were injured during the Monday morning fight at Kwame Nkrumah Circle.The fight follows the closure of shops belonging to some Nigerian traders. Earlier report suggested that the aggrieved Nigerian traders…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Ghanaian Minister of Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has appealed to the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to intervene in the border closure by Nigeria. He said the decision is hurting traders in the sub-region and it is clearly against the principles of ECOWAS. Nkrumah who made this call during a media…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The founder of the Anointed Palace Chapel International, popularly known as Rev Obofour, has been invited by the Accra Regional Police Command, to assist with investigations after he allegedly made a church member smoke a suspected narcotic substance openly. The controversial Man of God took social media into frenzy after forcing a…
LAGOS OCTOBER 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Ghana has set a target of three years for the country to put a stop to rice importation. This was disclosed Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Kennedy Nyarko Osei. Osei said Ghana was working round the clock to stop the importation of rice into the county based on…
LAGOS OCTOBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-WHAT kind of President is Muhammadu Buhari? In moments of national crisis, he abandons his duty post in preference for foreign trips of dubious value. Showing scant interest in domestic affairs, the President has embarked on another international trip, this time, to Sochi, Russia, for a three-day summit on gas and trade….
