LAGOS DECEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested three suspects at the Malam Aminu Kano International Airport (MAKIA) while attempting to smuggle 1,144 Automated Teller Machine (ATM) cards out of the country. The suspects are Abdullahi Usman, Musa Abubakar and Abdulwahid Auwalu. They were arrested by the Kano Zonal Command of…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Mixed reactions have trailed the decision of Super Eagles coach Gernot Rohr to hand a national team recall to striker Odion Ighalo, who retired from international football in 2019. Rohr included Ighalo in his 24-man squad for the 2022 World Cup qualifying games against Liberia and Cape Verde later this month. Ighalo…
LAGOS OCTOBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has stated that he will leave office when his tenure ends May 29, 2023. President Buhari disclosed this during a meeting in Makkah with a select group of Nigerians resident in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia where he just ended a visit. He warned against campaigns for tenure extension…
LAGOS OCTOBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari will, Monday October 25, 2021, depart for Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to participate in the investment conference organized by the Future Investment Initiative Institute. According to a statement by Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to the President (Media & Publicity) the President will be joined at the 5th edition of…
LAGOS AUGUST 28TH (NEWSRANGERS: The Department of State Services (DSS), has denied dispersing doctors attending a Saudi Arabia-organised job interview at the Sheraton Hotel in Abuja on Thursday. The spokesman for the DSS, Dr Peter Afunanya, made the denial in a statement issued in Abuja on Friday, August 27. Afunanya said the denial became necessary…
LAGOS APRIL 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-For days now, protesters have continued to picket the Nigerian Embassy in London and the Nigeria House where President Muhammadu Buhari has been observing his medical vacation, frustrating efforts of medical personnel from attending to the president who is suffering pains from the kidney surgical transplant he had, Dementia and Alzheimer, a…
LAGOS JANUARY 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria evacuated hundreds of its citizens from Saudi Arabia on Thursday after they overstayed their visas and were left stranded, two Reuters witnesses said. The first returnees, clad in masks and flowing robes, could be seen walking across the tarmac after their plane landed in the capital Abuja. High unemployment and two…
LAGOS JANUARY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Some Nigerians, about 600 have been stranded in Saudi Arabia for more than seven months, according to a video circulating on social media. However, reacting to the video, Chairman of the Nigerians In Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), Abike Dabiri-Erewa, on Friday said “Nigerian irregular migrants in Saudi Arabia are due to be evacuated…
