LAGOS APRIL 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 57 people drowned on Monday after a boat capsized off the Libyan coast near Khums, the latest tragedy in the Mediterranean where more than 1,100 have perished this year, the U.N.’s International Organization for Migration (IOM) said. Bodies have not been recovered from the shipwreck, but survivors included migrants […]
LAGOS APRIL 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A cleric has reportedly absconded with 52 mobile phones, money and other valuable items belonging to worshippers in Oyo state. The pastor said he was ordered by God to travel from Gambia to Ibadan, Oyo state capital, for the purpose of the crusade. He reportedly asked the worshippers to pay N4,800 for […]
LAGOS MARCH 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Football-loving Nigerians have slammed the Flying Eagles following their lethargic display against The Gambia in Monday’s U-20 Africa Cup of Nations semi-final clash at the Cairo Stadium, Egypt, PUNCH Sports Extra reports. Adama Bojang scored the winner for the Junior Scorpions after seven minutes after he raced onto a defence-splitting pass from […]
LAGOS OCTOBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Determined to checkmate the spate of criminality in Nigeria and the West African sub-region, the British Government on Tuesday, deployed a naval patrol ship to Nigeria to assist the country in tackling maritime and other security challenges facing it. The Royal Navy patrol ship known as HMS Trent began its sail to […]
LAGOS MAY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian Navy’s newest Offshore Survey Vessel, NNS LANA today, arrived In Banjul, Gambia as she continues her homeward voyage to Nigeria. The ship was received by a navy delegation and officials of the Nigerian High Commission in Gambia. The vessel is expected to stay in Gambia for 3 days, before departing for […]
LAGOS OCTOBER 1ST NOVEMBER (NEWSRANGERS)-A Gambian former beauty queen on Thursday accused former President Yahya Jammeh of raping her to punish her for rejecting his marriage proposal, in evidence to the country’s truth and reconciliation commission. “What he wanted to do was to teach me a lesson, what he wanted to do is manifest his […]
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Gambian government on Friday said it intended to prosecute former president Yahya Jammeh on allegations of theft and corruption. Jammeh, who ruled the tiny West African state for 22 years, fled the country in January 2017 after losing presidential elections and initially refusing to step down. The former president acquired more […]
LAGOS AUGUST 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Days after the Economic Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, vowed to fish out Nigerians indicted in the recent United States wire scam, Saturday Sun has learnt that most of the young men with questionable source of living are currently on the run. While many have gone underground, those with the means have fled […]
LAGOS MAY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A survivor, families of the disappeared and human rights organizations are seeking the extradition and prosecution in Ghana of Gambia’s former leader Yahya Jammeh for allegedly ordering the killing of more than 50 West African migrants in 2005. The murdered migrants are from Ghana, Nigeria and other West African countries. Human Rights […]
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