LAGOS MAY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-One of the buses conveying stranded Nigerians from Khartoum, Sudan, to Port Sudan caught fire in the early hours of Monday, The PUNCH learnt. 26 buses conveying the stranded Nigerians left Al Razi around 12 am on Monday for Port Sudan where they will move into Saudi Arabia. According to the Chairman, Nigerians…
LAGOS MARCH 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 80 Point of Sales (PoS) agents, suspected to be buying and selling money to members of the public with higher interest have been arrested by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), in Ondo state. Vanguard gathered that the officials of the commission carried out the exercise…
LAGOS JANUARY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A helicopter crash in a Kyiv suburb Wednesday killed 18 people, including Ukraine’s interior minister and three children, Ukrainian authorities said. There was no immediate word on whether the crash was an accident or a result of the war with Russia. No fighting has been reported recently in the Kyiv area. Interior Minister…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Following the aerial bombardment of his residence by military fighter jets, the notorious Zamfara bandits’ kingpin, Bello Turji, has expressed his dismay and betrayal over the action of the Nigerian government. PRNigeria gathered that the banditry warlord accused the government of breaking the peace pact they had with him in stopping banditry,…
LAGOS JULY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Comptroller General of Immigration Isah Jere Idris has declared war against corrupt practices in Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) by assuring that every necessary effort shall be made to frontally combat all forms of sharp practices across Commands and Formations in the Service. A Press statement signed by Assistant Controller of Immigration…
LAGOS MAY 4RG (NEWSRANGERS)-Since the beginning of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Pope Francis has floated the idea that he wants to take a trip to Kyiv to try to broker a ceasefire. But now he says he would prefer to go to Moscow to try to talk some sense into Vladimir Putin, who he has…
LAGOS MARCH 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Marina Ovsyannikova, the journalist who was detained after holding up an antiwar sign that read “They’re lying to you” during a live Russian state television broadcast, appeared in court on Tuesday. She was given a 30,000 rouble (£214) fine A news editor with Channel One, Ovsyannikova was seen on Monday carrying a poster…
LAGOS MARCH 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Russia’s foreign ministry on Tuesday said US President Joe Biden and a dozen other top officials had been banned from entering the country in a reciprocal response to US sanctions. The measure, which also applies to Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, “is the consequence of the extremely…