LAGOS APRIL 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-It is no news that no fewer than 23 Nigerians are on the death row in Saudi Arabia. The news however is that out of the twenty three Nigerians waiting for execution in Saudi Arabia because of hard drug related offences, seventeen of them are from the Yoruba tribe of Western Nigeria….
LAGOS APRIL 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Kenyan Police have arrested 33 Nigerian immigrants for illegally staying in the country, StandardDigital has reported. The news portal in Kenya reported that the immigrants were arrested on Thursday morning in Kasarani, a residential area in Nairobi, the capital city of Kenya. Also in the report, the Kasarani Officer Commanding Police…
LAGOS APRIL 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A total of 446 Nigerians are currently in prisons in the United Arabs Emirates (UAE), Nigerian Ambassador, Mohammed Dansanta Rimi has disclosed. He stated this during President Muhammadu Buhari’s town-hall meeting with Nigerians who are based in the UAE. “Although there is no exact record of our citizens in the UAE, owing…
LAGOS APRIL 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Five Nigerians, have been arrested for allegedly robbing a bureau de change in Sharjah of Dh2.3 million, the police said on Sunday. According to khaleejtimes.com the men barged into the exchange and smashed the glass barrier between the customers and the staff, stole the money in multiple currencies and fled. Two employees…
LAGOS MARCH 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Vice Presidential Candidate in the February 13 presidential elections, Mr. Peter Obi, has thanked Nigerians for their support for the PDP during the election. Speaking to the press in his Onitsha home on Monday, Obi said he was touched by the eagerness with which Nigerians came out to…
LAGOS MARCH 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The United States (US) has congratulated President Muhammadu Buhari on his successful re-election as President of Nigeria. US in a Press Statement signed by Michael R. Pompeo Secretary of State Washington, DC, made available to NewsRangers via email equally commended all those Nigerians who participated peacefully in the election and condemned those…
Dear Nigerians, Finally, we have reached the eve of the rescheduled first round of this year’s general elections. 2. Tomorrow, the polls open. Tomorrow, we affirm that Nigeria stands as a democracy and that no worldly hand can deter us from this wise and fitting path we have chosen for ourselves. 3. While democracy is…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Of the 17,051 asylum applications filed before Germany’s Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) in January 2019, 1,248 were filed by Nigerians, the third highest by citizens of any nation from any part of the world. January’s figure was double the number of asylum applications filed by Nigerians in December 2018…