LAGOS MAY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Diego Maradona has been arrested. He was stopped at an airport after his ex-girlfriend sued him for a £5 million pay-out, it has been reported. Local media in Buenos Aries are suggesting the football legend was detained when he flew into the Argentina capital from Mexico. It is believed the controversial Argentine…
LAGOS MAY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Osun State Police Command on Tuesday said it had continued to intensify efforts aimed at rescuing the two officers of the Federal Road Safety Corps kidnapped by gunmen on Sunday. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the officers, simply identified as Abioye and Bayegunni, were kidnapped while returning to their…
LAGOS MAY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The city of Akure, the Ondo State capital last Friday erupted in wild excitement and jubilation when a 26-year-old woman, Bose Isaac who in the course of evangelism, preaching, prayed for a crippled man with leprosy and two deaf men who instantly received healings. The rare occurrence which took place within the…
By Amos Okioma LAGOS MAY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)- Igbo traders at Swali market in Bayelsa state capital under the aegis of Igbo Traders Union (ITU) on Monday close down shops in protest of incessant burglary attacks on their shops were goods and cash worth N10 million have been stolen in the past seven months. Speaking with…
LAGOS MAY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Abduction of travelers along Lagos-Ore-Benin road is unabated as the criminal activities of kidnappers is increasing daily. The recent one is the killing of a lecturer of Igbinedion university by the hoodlums. Edo Commissioner of Police, Mr Mohammed Dan Mallam, on Sunday confirmed the killing of a lecturer with the Igbinedion University,…
LAGOS MAY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The crisis rocking the labour sector, following the refusal of Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, to inaugurate the board of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) assumed a new dimension on Wednesday when thugs allegedly hired by the minister came hard on some labour leaders, beating them black and…
LAGOS MAY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO) and the National Union of Road Transport Workers’ Union (NURTW) have sent a protest letter to President Muhammadu Buhari over alleged kiilings by suspected kidnappers along the East-West road between Bayelsa and Rivers states. According to the CLO and the NURTW, though the state governors of Bayelsa…
LAGOS APRIL 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A couple believed to be kidnappers, escaped being lynched by a mob in Port harcourt, Rivers State after they were apprehended with a stolen baby hidden inside the wife’s bag recently. The couple were apprehended during a stop and search operation by police officers in the state. They are currently in police…