LAGOS MAY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A criminal gang, which kidnapped a teenage boy on Sunday, is demanding a ransom in bitcoin cryptocurrency of nearly $120,000. Police spokesperson, Leonard Hlathi said Katlego Marite, 13, was dragged into a car while playing with two friends near his home in Witbank. The town is located in the eastern province of…
LAGOS MAY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora has called for an urgent review of the Early Warning Signal (EWS) put in place by the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Nigeria and South Africa early last year. She also said Nigeria must speed up the process…
LAGOS MAY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Gauteng Province in South Africa has endorsed the African Development Bank’s November 2018 Africa Investment Forum as a world-class initiative that is uniquely positioned to transform the continent’s development landscape. Gauteng Province will host the Bank’s inaugural forum from November 7-9, 2018 at the Sandton Convention Center in Johannesburg. Speaking after…
LAGOS MAY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A London-used phone can land you in jail if you are visiting countries like the United Kingdom, USA, Germany, and South Africa. Tunji Disu, an officer of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), confirmed this in a tweet shared on Sunday, April 29, 2018. According to Disu, most of the used phones shipped…
LAGOS APRIL 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Seventy-six-year-old former president of South Africa, Jacob Zuma, is set to marry for the seventh time. His bride-to-be is 24-year-old Nonkanyiso Conco, who confirmed to TimesLIVE that she and the embattled former president are set to wed. “Yes‚ we are getting married‚ but that is all I can say. I need to…
LAGOS APRIL 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Over the last few years, drones, sensors and satellites have started to be seen less as gadgets and more as tools for investigative reporting that would be hard to do through traditional newsgathering due to the lack of available data or restricted access to remote areas. Newsrooms in South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria…
LAGOS MARCH 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A South African church has called for the decriminalization of sex work, insisting that Jesus Christ was the first to do so. Reverend Alan Storey of the Central Methodist Mission‚ Cape Town, together with members of the Asijiki Coalition for the Decriminalisation of Sex Work‚ last Thursday hoisted a banner over the…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Mancoba Seven Angels Ministry, a church run as a cult, with no fewer than 100 sex slaves, was busted by the South African police. Among the sex slaves were girls as young as 12, nursing tiny babies and with leaders who regard themselves as angels. The church, called Mancoba Seven Angels Ministry,…
