LAGOS SEPTEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-With tears in his eyes, a young Kenyan athlete now captive in Ukraine pleads not to be sent back to Russia. “I will die there,” Evans Kibet says, waving his hands in the air towards the unseen interviewer on the video released on Wednesday by a Ukrainian army brigade. The 36-year-old…
LAGOS AUGUST 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Sule Fabiyi, a septuagenarian residing in Osogbo, Osun State, has narrated how banker Abdulwahab Sani Shehu allegedly terminated a N10.5 million fixed deposit investment he once had with First Bank and subsequently mismanaged the sum. While speaking with FIJ on Friday, Fabiyi said Shehu used to be the financial institution’s business banker…
LAGOS JULY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Peter Obi, the former presidential candidate, has revealed how he marked his 64th birthday in Rome, Italy, at the Basilica of Saint Mary of the Angels and the Martyrs. In a heartfelt message shared on his Facebook handle, Peter Obi expressed gratitude for the outpouring of goodwill and birthday wishes from…
LAGOS JULY 2ND (NEWSRNAGERS)-A prosecution witness, Ajayi Michael Folaseye, on Monday told a Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos, how he rejected a $7,000 bribe allegedly offered by a colleague seeking access to Premium Trust Bank’s internal systems. Ajayi, who is the first prosecution witness gave his testimony before Justice Alexander Owoeye in the…
LAGOS JUNE 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The British man who was the sole survivor of Thursday’s Air India plane crash said he managed to escape the wreckage through an opening in the fuselage. “I managed to unbuckle myself, used my leg to push through that opening, and crawled out,” Vishwashkumar Ramesh told Indian state media DD News….
LAGOS APRIL 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In a development that has raised eyebrows across political circles, the presidential candidate, Mr Peter Obi, has broken his silence over the circumstances surrounding the abrupt cancellation of his planned visit to Benue State. In a detailed statement issued yesterday, Mr Obi expressed concern about what he described as an unsettling incident,…
LAGOS APRIL 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The truck driver who survived the lynching of 16 travellers of Kano State extraction, by a vigilante group in Uromi, Edo State, has recounted the harrowing experience, refuting claims that the incident was tribal-related. The incident occurred in the early hours of Friday when the travellers, believed to be hunters, were journeying…
LAGOS MARCH 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Olaonipekun Temitope has shared the traumatic story of how she was deceived and trafficked to Libya by a close family acquaintance before eventually escaping. Speaking in an exclusive interview with Nollywood actress and filmmaker Biola Adebayo Ent, Temitope detailed the horrors she faced in Libya, where she was forced into prostitution. She…