LAGOS APRIL 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A United Kingdom tribunal has held that a Nigerian be fined the sum of £26,835 (over N15 million) after being charged in relation to 61,800 cigarettes found in his bag without appropriate disclosure to relevant revenue authorities. The cigarettes were seized at Heathrow Airport, London, in February 2020. Details of the judgement…
LAGOS JANUARY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Simon Mamoh, a Nigerian, has filed a N406 million lawsuit against Khairul Dzaimee Daud, Director-General of the Malaysian Immigration Department, and three other people for what he claims to be illegal detention and deportation. Mamoh claims that the immigration division of the nation held him against his will for 40 days before…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A 28-year-old man has been arrested for stabbing his Nigerian mother to death in east London. Detectives on Tuesday, November 1, 2022, charged Nicholas Aina, of Auriel Avenue, Dagenham, with the murder of his mother, 64-year-old Caroline Adeyelu. He was also charged with the attempted murder of another woman in her 30s. Police…
LAGOS AUGUST 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Kenya’s Deputy President and president-elect, William Ruto’s daughter, June Ruto, was on Saturday, engaged to Nigeria’s Dr. Alexander Ezenagu. The engagement event was held in Nairobi and attended by top political leaders and respected persons in the society. A delegation from Nigeria was led by former Nigeria’s Aviation Minister Osita Chidoka who…
LAGOS JUNE 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A 41-year-old Nigerian, Obinna Igbokwe, on Wednesday night in Texas, United States, shot his wife, Tangela Igbokwe, killed her mother and fled to North Texas with their three-month-old son, Mansa, before finally killing himself. Igbokwe lived in Spring, Montgomery County of Dallas, Texas. According to the U.S. police, Obinna Igbokwe and his…
LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian man, Sunday Osemeahon, has been sentenced to 32-year imprisonment after a jury found him guilty of the murder of another Nigerian, Obasanjo Adeola Owoyale. The accused person, Osemeahon had allegedly killed the victim, a family friend who had given him a lift after withdrawing a high sum of money from…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian, Okey Eze, who claims to be a tiler by profession has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja with 350 wraps of cocaine worth over N2.3billion in street value. The 38-year-old Eze, from Orji River, in Oji-River Local…
LAGOS JUNE 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian man named Umar Usman Dagona who emerged National Winner of a Chemistry competition, and went on to represent Nigeria online in the Imagine Chemistry Worldwide 2020, has developed a cellphone that can make and receive calls without sim card or recharge card. Umar Dagona is from Gashua town of Bade…
