LAGOS JULY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Army has announced the death of its Provost Marshal, Maj.-Gen. Hassan Ahmed, who was killed by gunmen on Thursday. The assailants kidnapped his sister, Safina Ahmed (initially mistaken for the wife). The death was announced in a statement by the Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, on Friday in…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A man identified as Ekanem Idongesit has reportedly committed suicide after investing his sister’s 53 million naira in the troubled MBA Trading and capital investment. According to Standard Observers, the sister who lives outside the country sent him the money for land and housing projects in Uyo, but Idongesit was reported to…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Kidnappers of Okechukwu Nnodim, a correspondent with The Punch have demanded the sum of N10m as ransom to secure his release. The kidnappers, according to sources closed to the family contacted Nnodim’s sister in Lagos on the telephone. The assailants had stormed his residence around Arab road area, Kubwa, Abuja, where they…
LAGOS MAY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-South African Fredie Blom celebrated his 116th birthday on Friday unfazed by the coronavirus crisis, over 100 years since the Spanish flu pandemic killed his sister. “I have lived this long because of God’s grace,” said Blom, possibly one of the oldest men in the world. Lighting a cigarette, he recalled the…