LAGOS SEPTEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-With tears in his eyes, a young Kenyan athlete now captive in Ukraine pleads not to be sent back to Russia. “I will die there,” Evans Kibet says, waving his hands in the air towards the unseen interviewer on the video released on Wednesday by a Ukrainian army brigade. The 36-year-old…
By Iking Ferry LAGOS SEPTEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS) -Last week, I was in a bank when Mama Ngozi, the same woman that sells tomatoes in Ajah Market, came to withdraw money. She wanted to buy bags of tomatoes for resale. But the cashier told her: “Madam, from January 1st, 2026, you can’t operate this account…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A United States District Court in California has convicted Paulinus Iheanacho Okoronkwo, a former General Manager of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC), of $2.1 million bribery scheme linked to oil drilling rights in Nigeria. Okoronkwo, 58, a dual citizen of Nigeria and the United States and also a practising lawyer in…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A shocking video has taken over social media, featuring a Lagos agbero who claims he scammed Winners Chapel, led by Bishop David Oyedepo, out of nearly $1 million through sophisticated cyber fraud. In the viral clip, the man describes himself as a “full-stack unicorn developer” since 2000, boasting that he has been…
LAGOS AUGUST 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Sule Fabiyi, a septuagenarian residing in Osogbo, Osun State, has narrated how banker Abdulwahab Sani Shehu allegedly terminated a N10.5 million fixed deposit investment he once had with First Bank and subsequently mismanaged the sum. While speaking with FIJ on Friday, Fabiyi said Shehu used to be the financial institution’s business banker…
LAGOS AUGUST 24TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-A Federal High Court in Abuja has heard how businessman, Aliko Dangote, escaped being defrauded by some foreigners engaged to provide services for one of his companies, the Dangote Refineries. The court also heard how one of the truck drivers, engaged by Dangote Cement, identified as Mohammed Tayiru (Tahir) and some others…
LAGOS AUGUST 24TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has issued a fresh warning to travelers, advising them on how to avoid being used as unwitting couriers by criminal drug syndicates. The caution, delivered by the agency’s Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, in a post on his official X handle on Sunday,…
By Olaleye Olawale LAGOS AUGUST 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A passenger on Enugu Air wrote, “On an Enugu Air flight to Lagos from Abuja this morning, August 16th, another mild drama played out briefly. As the plane taxied, the pilot, a female captain, announced that there was a recalcitrant passenger who had declined switching off his phone…