LAGOS SEPTEMBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The police in Canada have arrested the Canada-based Nigerian woman, Amaka Sonnberger, who threatened to poison Yoruba and Benin people living in the North American country. The Toronto Police Service, Canada, said Ms Sonnberger, 46, was arrested on Sunday and that she has been charged with uttering threats. “She is scheduled to…
LAGOS AUGUST 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian woman based in Ontario, Canada, has appeared in a disturbing video calling for the killing of South-Westerners and the people of Benin, Edo State capital through mass poisoning. The woman, who made the call in a TikTok live meeting video making the rounds on social media, vowed to start poisoning…
LAGOS JUNE 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The 2023 Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Obi has said the last general election showed that Yorubas don’t hate Igbos. This was as Obi noted that the election was not a Christian or Igbo agenda. Obi said the 2023 general election saw Nigerians unite across tribe and religious lines, adding that…
LAGOS APRIL 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian separatist, Sunday “Igboho” Adeyemo, has said President Patrice Talon of Benin Republic saved him from the “murderous” Nigerian government. POLITICS NIGERIA reports that Igboho is accused of stoking ethnic tensions in Nigeria after targeting Fulani herders. Last year, he emerged as the latest figure calling for a Yoruba nation in the…
LAGOS JULY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-All eyes were on Cour De’appal De Cotonou, Benin Republic, yesterday, for the arraignment of Yoruba Nation agitator, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, fondly called Sunday Igboho, since his arrest on Monday night. Hordes of his supporters had since morning trooped to the court in anticipation of his appearance. The environment got tension-soaked as…
LAGOS JULY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Pa Ayo Fasanmi elder statesman and a leader of the Yoruba socio-cultural group Afenifere died peacefully in Osogbo, Osun State capital on Wednesday night, his son Folabi said. The prominent Yoruba leader died aged 94. He would have been 95 on September 27. Folabi said in a statement announcing his father’s death:…
LAGOS OCTOBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Barely 24 hours after former Anambra State Governor, Mr. Peter Obi, emerged as the Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the 2019 polls, a clique in Igbo land led by Governor Dave Umahi and Chief Chris Uba has started mounting pressure on the party’s Presidential Candidate, former Vice…