LAGOS MAY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In Nigeria, kidnapping for ransom has become a feature in all parts of the country with thousands of people falling victim. Between the year 2011 and 2020, Nigerians paid at least $18.34 million (N7 billion) as ransom to kidnappers, a report on the country’s kidnap industry shows. The report from SB Morgen…
LAGOS FEBRUAY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Smugglers are reportedly helping migrants scale sections of Donald Trump’s multi-billion border wall using $5 ladders. US Border Patrol has seen a rise in camouflage “hook-and-ladders” within the far south-west region of Texas since May last year, according to The El Paso Times. El Paso’s urban stretch of border is said to…
LAGOS JANUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Rev. Father Andrew Ihonda-Ovienloba of St. Andrew’s Catholic Church, Aruogba in Oredo Local Government area of Edo State has disclosed that robbers broke into his office and stole a huge amount of money belonging to the church. Ihonda-Ovienloba made the disclosure during Sunday mass in the church. The parish priest said he…
LAGOS DECEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government has reviewed its policy on stamp duty charges, levied on electronic payments. This is captured in the new proposed finance bill, presently with the Senate. The new bill ensures that the N50 stamp duty charge will now be levied on electronic payments above N10,000 as against payments above N1,000….
LAGOS NOVEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Zamfara state house of assembly has abolished the law that allows former governors, their deputies, speakers and their deputies to get jumbo pension and other allowances. The development comes one day after a letter Abdulaziz Yari, a former governor wrote to Bello Matawalle, lamenting the non-payment of his monthly N10 million upkeep…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-It is reported that a certain man has allegedly paid a ransom of five million naira (N5 Million) in fake currency to kidnappers who later released the victim. In reference to a social media user, Aisha Fari took to her page to share the story of how a man allegedly gave kidnappers,…
LAGOS JULY 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Some commercial sex workers in Accra who cannot make enough daily sales during their escapades, have resorted to using sex in paying for their fares. This situation has become alarming and worrisome to most drivers, especially, taxi drivers, whose services these prostitutes engage in the Accra metropolis. Some of the drivers (names…
LAGOS JULY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Boeing Co on Wednesday promised $100 million to help families affected by the deadly crashes of the company’s 737 MAX planes in Indonesia and Ethiopia. The multiyear payout is independent of lawsuits filed by families of the 346 people killed in the two crashes, which happened in October 2018 and March of…