LAGOS MARCH 27T (NEWSRANGERS)-The graduate son of a Nigerian politician was shot dead near his family’s London home in the latest round of bloodshed in the capital. Abraham Badru, 26, who was given a police bravery award as a teenager for saving a woman from a sex attack, was gunned down in the street in…
LAGOS MARCH 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN), has said the United Kingdom has paid Nigeria the sum of $70m recovered from the Malabu oil controversial deal. The $70m leaves an outstanding of $15m of the $85m which the AGF announced in October last year as…
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…