LAGOS DECEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A massive fire that lasted more than 12 hours in a Cambodian hotel casino killed at least 16 people and injured about 50, while other victims were apparently not yet accounted for Thursday, as neighboring Thailand sent firetrucks to help fight the blaze in a bustling border town. Videos posted on social…
LAGOS AUGUST 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Police forensics investigators have identified bodies of two persons murdered and buried in a shallow grave in northeastern Thailand as a Nigerian man and a Vietnamese woman. A wild mushroom harvester discovered their bodies in a forest at Chok Chai district in Nakhon Ratchasima on the evening of July 28, 2022. The man…
LAGOS OCTOBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Thai trafficker was sentenced to a record 374 years in jail for child trafficking in a ruling that lawyers say will send a deterrent to other criminals. Yuttana Kodsap, 31, was found guilty of child trafficking for the purpose of pornography after he lured children aged 7-12 to play computer games…
Chairman of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) Col. Muhammad Mustapha Abdallah (Rtd.) has distanced Nigeria Anti-Drug agency from statement made by Osun State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu with respect to introduction of medical marijuana in Nigeria during their visit to Thailand. It would be recalled that Governor Rotimi Akeredolu, who was in Thailand last week…
LAGOS MAY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Governor of Ondo State, Akeredolu has refuted the rumour making the rounds that his government was encouraging cannabis cultivation in the state. The Governor who denied the allegation on arrival at Muritala Mohammed International Airport, Ikeja,Lagos rather went ahead to note that government was only looking at the possibility of having legally…
LAGOS MAY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Experts are now convinced they have finally uncovered what happened to the disappeared Malaysian Airlines flight MH370. Mystery has surrounded the doomed MH370, which disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 passengers on board, since March 2014. A panel of aviation experts have been working towards an explanation for…
LAGOS JANUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Thailand’s Immigration police have arrested four Nigerians and one Cameroonians and charged them with operating an online romance scam to deceive Thai women into wiring them money. Immigration Police Bureau commissioner, Pol Lt-General Sutthipong Wongpin, revealed that their arrest came after police received complaints from several Thai women who reported that foreigners…