LAGOS DECEMBER 22ND (NEWRANGERS)-Four stowaways armed with iron bars are threatening the crew of a cargo ship off the English coast and demanding to be taken ashore, a spokesman for the shipowner said. The spokesman for Grimaldi Lines, Paul Kyprianou, said they were discovered four days ago after the Grande Tema ship had set sail…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The outgoing British High Commissioner to Nigeria. Mr Paul Arkwright said a 10-year visa ban will be slammed on Nigerians who present forged documents to back their applications. “I know there is a feeling in Nigeria that we refuse visas more often than we accept them. That is not the case. “We…
LAGOS AUGUST 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As British Prime Minister Theresa May visits Nigeria and two other African countries this week, the country reported it had returned £70 million recovered from a Nigerian, who was convicted of fraud by an Italian court. The British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Mr Paul Arkwright, said in Abuja: “There was an Italian…
LAGOS JULY 19TH (NEWRANGERS)-The Federal Government of Nigeria on Wednesday announced that the name of the proposed new National Carrier is ‘Nigeria Air’. The Minister of State for Aviation, Sen. Hadi Sirika, disclosed this while unveiling the airline to investors at the ongoing Farnborough International Air Show in UK. The colour is green white green.
Roman Abramovich[/capt LAGOS MAY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, the owner of Chelsea soccer club who has found himself without a visa to Britain, took Israeli citizenship on Monday and will move to Tel Aviv where he has bought a property, an Israeli media report said. Abramovich has been counted as one of the richest…
LAGOS MAY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari is under pressure to disclose the state of his health after he embarked on a fourth medical trip to London. Nigeria’s opposition party, People’s Democractic Party (PDP), said it was time for the president to reveal his medical condition. PDP spokesman Kola Ologbodiyan said: “We need full disclosure…
LAGOS MAY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Kano based multi-billionaire- businessman, industrialist, Islamic Scholar and philanthropist, Sheikh Isyaku Rabiu, 90, has died in Great Britain following an undisclosed ailment. Media reports quoting News Digest said the deceased scholar would be buried as soon as his remains arrive Kano. The Sheikh made his fortune largely from manufacturing, textile, automobile, insurance,…
LAGOS MAY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Princess Elizabeth Bright, a 22yrs old student has been elected as one of the youngest councillors in UK, representing Eastbrook ward in Dagenham, during the UK Election which took place on Thursday, May 3rd. Her mother, Councillor Afolasade Bright from the Borough of Barking and Dagenham Council was also re-elected. She is…