LAGOS FEBRUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The General Advisor, British Military Advisory and Training Team (BMATT) in Nigeria, Major Ian Robertson, while condemning the attack and abduction of scores of students of Government Girls Secondary School (GGSS), Dapchi in Yobe State by suspected Boko Haram insurgents, yesterday, pledged the willingness of the British military to assist in the…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A new technique for identifying and diagnosing damage to the human retina has been awarded ‘Best Student Paper’ at the industry-leading BIOIMAGING 2018 conference in Portugal. Nigerian doctoral candidate Bashir Dodo, 29, from Brunel University London’s Department of Computer Science, demonstrated a new algorithm for OCT (Optical Coherence Tomography) equipment which can…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Unspecified numbers of Nigerians and Ghanaian immigrants are expected to be deported from the United Kingdom, UK. They will be received at the Hajj Camp in Lagos. Report says a charter flight would convey them en-masse. Also affected by the deportation are some immigrants of Ghanaian origin. No reason was given for…
LAGOS JANUARY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian Doctor has been jailed for four years after he killed his nine-year-old daughter as he rushed in traffic to take her to a maths class. Chizoro Edohasim, 47, of Timperley, Greater Manchester, overtook vehicles at high speed and drove through a red light before he crashed into a wall on…
LAGOS JANUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Leicester Crown Court in the United Kingdom on Wednesday sentenced a Nigerian businessman to three years and six months imprisonment. The convict, Walter Wagbatsoma, 47, was imprisonment for money laundering. This was even as he was disqualified from being a company director for six years. The Lincolnshire police said Wagbatsoma fraudulently…
LAGOS JANUARY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-On Wednesday, Britain appointed a “minister for loneliness” to tackle what Prime Minister Theresa May described as “the sad reality of modern life” affecting millions of people. Tracey Crouch, a junior minister for sport and civil society, will take on the role as part of a broader strategy to combat loneliness in…