LAGOS AUGUST 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Human rights activist and 2023 presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, has been released from police custody two days after his arrest at the Force Headquarters in Abuja. Sowore was detained on Wednesday after honouring an invitation from the Inspector General of Police’s Monitoring Unit. His release…
LAGOS JULY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Bayelsa State High Court Judge, RT. Hon. Justice E.G.Umokoro, has regained freedom after 12 days in captivity. According to the Nigeria Police Force and Department of State Service(DSS), he was released from kidnappers’ den without payment of ransom. Umukoro, who was kidnapped in controversial circumstances at a popular eatery in Yenagoa, was released on the day President…
LAGOS MAY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A popular businessman, Prince Bankole Adepegba, also known as “Ade Bendel,” who was abducted in IIara town in Imeko-Afon Local Government Area of Ogun State has regained his freedom after the payment of a ransom amounting to N300 million. The gunmen stormed the community at about 11 pm on Wednesday, April 30,…
LAGOS MARCH 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Barcelona and Brazil soccer player Dani Alves has won his appeal against a rape conviction, with a Spanish court overturning the ruling on Friday. Alves was found guilty in February 2024 of sexually assaulting a woman in a Barcelona nightclub bathroom and sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison. Alves has always…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Police Force has granted the detained national chairman of the Labour Party, Julius Abure bail. Abure was arrested on Wednesday in Benin City, the Edo State capital by operatives of Zone 5 Police headquarters, following a petition forwarded to the zone from the office of the Inspector General of Police…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-An Indian woman, Barnali Baruah Saikia, who was held captive by a Nigerian man and his accomplice in Lagos, was rescued and brought to her country this week. Barnali, a boxer and fitness coach from Guwahati, Assam, was held captive by the Nigerian national identified simply as King, for 14 days when she…
LAGOS MAY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Afrobeat musician, Seun Kuti has been released on bail from detention having met his bail conditions. Lawyers representing the music star earlier in the day said he might be released on bail from detention on Tuesday as ordered by the Chief Magistrate, having fulfilled his bail terms. The lawyers, Adeyinka Olumide-Fusika (SAN)…
LAGOS APRIL 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Many questioned Israel Adesanya for coming back to fight Alex Pereira so quickly after Pereira had knocked him out on Nov. 12 in the main event of UFC 281 in New York. Adesanya dismissed all the critics. He called for the rematch, he made the adjustments he needed after losing three consecutive…