LAGOS APRIL 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A woman was found dead at Eleme Junction in Port Harcourt on Tuesday evening with some bundles of a thousands of naira notes in her handbag. Some people who saw her body, are suggesting that she might have been used for money rituals while others said it could have been that she…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than twenty people, many of them women and children, were trampled to death on Monday in a stampede for food and money for refugees in southeast Niger, sources said. “We have a provisional toll of 20 dead,” a medical source said. Aid workers confirmed the account and said about 10…
LAGOS JULY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)— Dozens of Christchurch gun owners on Saturday handed over their weapons in exchange for money, in the first of more than 250 planned buyback events around New Zealand after the government outlawed many types of semi-automatics. Police said they paid more than 430,000 New Zealand dollars ($288,000) to 169 gun owners…
LAGOS JUNE 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A middle aged woman, Yemi Samuel, has been arrested by men of the Kwara state police command for arranging her own kidnap. Yemi who was paraded before newsmen at the command’s headsquarters in Akure the state capital yesterday June 26th, explained that she arranged her own kidnap in order to raise money…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), says that the national electronic identity card can be used for money transactions and other national benefits. Mr Loveday Ogbonna, Head, Corporate Communications, said this in an interview with newsmenon Wednesday in Abuja. Ogbonna said that the National e-ID Card, which combines a proof of identity…
By Pelumi Olajengbesi Esq. LAGOS JULY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-I started my independent life by training as a reputation manager, so I probably understand public perception management and behavioural effects in a manner that would escape a casual observer. Nigerians have a way of designing stories to soothe their narrative ignoring the lessons therein. I have been…
LAGOS APRIL 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Suspected armed robbers attacked the New Ona Iwa Mimo Onimajemu Cherubim and Seraphim Church, Angwan Kwaso, Tunga-Maje community in Zuba, FCT and carted away money and phones of members. The Leader of the Church, Prophet Oladejo John, told newsmen that the culprits carted away money and phones and created fears in the…
LAGOS MARCH 2ND(NEWSRANGERS)-The Presidency has decried the practice by officers of the Nigeria Police Force who still request money for bail from innocent Nigerians, despite the measures put in place to improve the bail process. The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr. Boss Mustapha, disclosed this Thursday at a roundtable to validate…
