LAGOS MAY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Comrade M. B. Muhammad, one of the victims who was abducted from a Kaduna-bound train in 2021, has narrated his encounter with one of his kidnappers at a mosque in Kaduna State. According to him, the encounter happened a few days ago when he stopped at a Shema Mosque near Bakin Ruwa…
LAGOS DECEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Toronto resident who lost $355,000 in a romance cryptocurrency fraud was able to recover some of those funds after the man allegedly behind the scam was arrested in Nigeria. The Toronto Police Service (TPS) was first notified of a crypto scam in the fall of 2021 and began working with various…
LAGOS AUGUST 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Christine Brown, a British national and a victim of internet fraud was on Monday, August 28, 2023 presented with the sum of $26,000USD by the Benin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. Brown expressed gratitude to the Commission for its efforts which she said, has brought some succour…
LAGOS MARCH 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Senate on Tuesday, March 19, observed a minute silence in honour of Nigerian-born Prof. Pius Adesanmi and Amb. Abiodun Bashua, who both died in the ill-fated Ethiopian Airline plane that crashed two weeks ago. Prof. Adesamni and Amb. Bashua, as well as other passengers, died on March 10 when the Boeing…
LAGOS JANUARY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two notorious kidnappers – Igwe Sunday, 28; and Chukwuemeka Bright, 21 – who were fleeing with their victim, were on Wednesday arrested by the police in Lagos. They were arrested with their victim, Mildred Mbajiorgu, at about 9:43pm at Elemoro, Ajah, Lagos State. The tight security network put in place by the…