LAGOS JUNE 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Sitting on top of a yellow jerry can of fuel, Jeannine waits for customers on a sidewalk in Benin’s economic capital Cotonou, but business is slow. The motorbikes and cars she normally supplies are no longer stopping to stock up on her cheap gasoline, which is smuggled in from neighbouring Nigeria. Since…
LAGOS APRIL 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Photos have been released of 62 people allegedly being held hostage in Nigeria after a brazen attack by gunmen on a high-speed train last month. It is not clear when the pictures, which surfaced on social media on Tuesday showing the captives divided into four groups, were taken. Families of some of…
LAGOS MARCH 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Humaira Mustapha made no effort to wipe away the tears rolling down her cheeks, as she spoke about her two kidnapped daughters. “Whenever I think about my daughters I’m filled with indescribable grief,” Mustapha told AFP. Seated against the plastered mud wall of her bare sitting room, her tears left damp spots…
LAGOS JULY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-She is in pain. The pain is terrible. Mrs. Josephine Ayanwu of No.14 Buraimoh Street, Olodi-Apapa in Ajeromi-Ifelodun Local Government Area of Lagos State is afflicted with breast cancer. And today she cries every minute out of the pain because the left breast has been cut and plastered. According to her, it…
LAGOS DECEMBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Coalition of United Political Parties, CUPP, on Monday said Nigerians are celebrating the 2018 Christmas with so much pains and in hunger. CUPP National Spokesman, Imo Ugochinyere, who said this in a statement made available to journalists, noted that most Nigerians were celebrating the season on empty stomach. He attributed the…