LAGOS MAY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Senegalese-American singer, Akon’s car was stolen from a gas station on Monday night, May 24 in the Buckhead neighborhood of Atlanta. The car was reportedly stolen as the singer was pumping gas into his car. According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Akon stopped at a Quiktrip gas station to fill his white Range Rover up…
LAGOS MARCH 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)- Assets and funds worth more than $400m stolen from Nigeria are kept in the United Arab Emirate, (UAE) by crooks, the country’s leading anti-corruption group said on Tuesday. The Human and Environmental Development Agenda, (HEDA Resource Centre) corroborated by foreign anti-corruption experts said during an international conference held in Abuja that…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) trophy has reportedly been stolen from the Egyptian Football Association (EFA) headquarters in Cairo. Former EFA vice-president Ahmed Shobier has issued a remarkable claim that the most coveted title in African football has mysteriously disappeared. The Egyptian national team achieved unprecedented success between 2006 and 2010…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A Ghanaian man in Charlotte, North Carolina, known as Suleman Alhassan has been arrested by police in the United States of America carrying $130,000 of stolen cash. According to U.S authorities, he’s scammed numerous ladies, mostly elderly ones, via dating sites. He runs a racket where he gets close to them then…
LAGOS JUNE 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Thousands of artifacts looted from African towns over a century ago line European and British Museums and institutions. After decades of campaigns for African pieces—such as the Benin bronzes to return home, the homecoming of the looted artworks finally began looking like a real possibility. But in the middle of the global…
LAGOS JUNE 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 50 new high-performance Mopar models were stolen from a California Dodge dealership after looters shattered the showroom windows to snatch keys. There’s no denying that 2020 is a year for the history books that nobody in this lifetime could forget even if they tried. While we are still dealing…
LAGOS OCTOBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The United Kingdom receives not less than 90 billion pound shady funds from across the world every year, most of them stolen by public officials from Third World countries, including but not limited to Nigeria, foreign experts said in Port Harcourt, Rivers State on Monday. The experts said 87,000 illicit assets in…
A woman. Salome, Tuesday afternoon, lost her one-year-old baby to a child thief while fighting over N200 market levy in Owerri, Imo State. A witness said the woman had dropped her child to struggle over N200 levy imposed on her by some revenue collectors in the Eke Onuwa market, Owerri. After the fight with the…