LAGOS APRIL 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Some Nigerians in the United Kingdom have stormed the Abuja House, 2 Campden Hill, Kensington, London demanding for president Muhammadu Buhari’s repatriation. In a video tweeted on his verified Twitter handle, a Nigerian broadcaster and former presidential aide, Reno Omokiri, said they were there to chase the president back home. “The Police…
LAGOS MARCH 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Attempts by some defiant traffickers to export hard drugs through the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, MMIA, Lagos; Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja and Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport, Kano have been foiled by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, with 200 kilogrammes of the illicit substances seized from them….
LAGOS FEBRUARY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-According to a recent report by the Daily Mirror: Sport, who have been looking over the recently-filed accounts of Anthony Joshua’s Sparta Promotions, the heavyweight champion has officially become the country’s first £100 million boxer. Joshua’s business assets grew by over £60m—£57.35m of which was netted from fights between February 2019 and…
LAGOS JANUARY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The United Arab Emirate, UAE, says passengers from Nigeria can no longer travel through other countries or airports to Dubai. This was made known in a notice by Dubai Airports, the operators of Dubai International Airport. The regulations restricted Nigerian passengers from transiting through other airports. The move comes as the United…
LAGOS JANUARY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 36-year-old Nigerian, Oluwakemi Badare, has allegedly killed her four-year-old son, Kingswealth Bayode, in Plumstead, South East London, United Kingdom. Met Police in a statement said the boy’s body was found at a flat at Invermore Place on Sunday morning. According to the BBC, Oluwakemi is facing a charge of killing her…
LAGOS JANUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Monday won his legal battle against being extradited from the UK to face espionage charges — after a British judge decided he would likely commit suicide if sent to the US. District Judge Vanessa Baraitser ruled that it would be “oppressive” to extradite the 49-year-old Australian because…
LAGOS JANUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A stowaway who clung to the undercarriage of a jumbo jet and survived an 11-hour, 5,639-mile flight from South Africa to London has spoken for the first time of his terrifying journey. He recalled how he emerged from a coma months later to learn his best friend had fallen 5,000ft from the…
LAGOS JANUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-An erstwhile spokesman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Olisa Metuh, has left Nigeria for the United Kingdom to receive treatment for his deteriorating health condition. Mr. Metuh, who has had a tumultuous battle with his spinal cord, departed Nigeria on Wednesday night – shortly after his passport was released by authorities,…