LAGOS APRIL 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian man who ran away from Ghana after testing positive for coronavirus has been declared wanted. A Nigerian man, 46 known as Simon Okafor Chukwudi has been declared wanted by the Police in Ghana on Friday, April 17. Chukwudi fled the country after he was found to have tested positive for…
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 JANUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian man has died after falling from the 12th floor of his apartment while allegedly attempting to evade immigration officers. The man, known as Ogodor, from Uli, Anambra state, fell from the Gading Nias Apartment in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Thursday, January 23, 2020. There are conflicting reports about how he died. Some Nigerians…
LAGOS DECEMBER 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A former University of Texas at San Antonio football player has been arrested and charged in the fatal stabbing of his sister at a home north of Austin. The Travis County sheriff´s office says 25-year-old Michael Egwuagu who is originally from Nigeria was charged with murder in the Friday killing of his…
LAGOS DECEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian man identified as Chukwuma Anthony Ezeh, on Wednesday, December 11th slumped and died at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos. An official source at the MMIA arrival terminal said the passenger on arrival from China, slumped and died while waiting to collect his luggage. Ezeh, according to information on…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A twenty-four year old South African police constable, Austin Luciano Reynold, has been found guilty for the 2018 murder of a Nigerian Ebuka Okoli in Durban, Kwa Zulu Natal. Okoli was shot at close range during an unauthorised raid by the police officer, Reynold, on the community where he resides. He was…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The trial of eight South African police officers charged with the torture and murder of Nigerian National, Ibrahim Olamilekan Badmus, is underway at the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria, South Africa. The eight police officers – two women and six men – were arrested in October 2017 by police watchdog, the…
LAGOS SEPEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian Mission in South Africa says no Nigerian died but over 50 vehicles and other property worth millions of dollars owned by Nigerians were vandalised, burnt or stolen, in fresh attacks. The Nigeria Consul General in Johannesburg, Mr Godwin Adama, spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria in a telephone conversation from…