LAGOS JULY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 37-year-old Nigerian woman based in the USA caused a commotion when she fired several rounds inside Dallas Love Field Airport in Texas. The woman, later identified as Portia Odufuwa, was consequently shot and injured by a police officer before being taken into custody. No other injuries were reported, the police said,…
LAGOS JULY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The United Nations, UN Human Rights Council Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, has indicted both Nigeria and Kenya Governments for the arrest and extraordinary rendition, torture and continued detention of the Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, without due process. UN therefore, asked Nigerian Government to, “immediate…
LAGOS JULY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Industrial Court of Nigeria (NICN) in Abuja on Friday ordered a substantial increment in the salaries of the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) and other Nigerian judges. The trial judge, Osatohanmwen Obaseki-Osaghae, gave this order in her judgement, saying “judges have been victims of great injustice” and describing their poor…
LAGOS JULY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Germany signed an agreement on Friday to begin sending hundreds of Benin bronzes back to what is now Nigeria, rubber-stamping the biggest effort yet by a European country to return the looted artworks. Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and Culture Minister Claudia Roth signed the deal with their Nigerian counterparts in Berlin after…
LAGOS JULY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Home Secretary of United Kingdom, Priti Patel has estimated no fewer 400 Nigerian offenders in UK prisons. She announced that the Nigerian criminals are to be sent home to serve their sentences in a boost to deportations. The Home Secretary has signed a deal with the West African country that will…
By Valentine Obienyem LAGOS JUNE 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Our attention was brought to the above campaign of calumny lunched by some faceless groups. Is it by coincidence that it came when we were reliably informed that some political parties have charged their political office holders to hire people to relentlessly attack Obi with falsehoods on all available…
LAGOS JUNE 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-MoMo Payment Service Bank, the new financial services subsidiary of telecoms company MTN Nigeria, suffered a breach in the last week of May just days after launch, reportedly losing 22 billion naira ($53 million.) Nigerian payment service banks operate with a mobile money license reserved for non-bank institutions. They offer deposits and…
LAGOS JUNE 24TH (NEWSRAGERS)-The Canadian government has announced an acute shortage of manpower and invited Nigerians and other foreign nationals to fill existing vacancies in various sectors of the country’s economy. In a report by Statistics Canada seen by Ripples Nigeria on Thursday, the government said the labour shortage has reached an all-time high of…