LAGOS SEEPTEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Egyptian television presenter Sarah Khalifa and 11 other people have been sentenced to death by hanging after being convicted of drugs charges. According to state-owned al-Ahram newspaper, they were part of a criminal gang which imported ingredients used to make drugs with the intent of selling them. They also had illegal firearms…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Around 2,000 students and teachers across Indonesia have fallen ill with food poisoning over the past three days linked to the government’s free school meals programme. In the latest case, 777 people became unwell after consuming the food at a high school in Rembang, Central Java, the institution’s headteacher said. The meals…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-More than 80 people were killed between October 2025 and July this year following false accusations about what is termed “genital theft”, the BBC Global Disinformation Unit has found after gathering data from police forces across six African countries. The killings are linked to rumours that a simple tap on the…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-United States President, Donald Trump, has appointed Dr Karl Von Batten—a lobbyist for the African Democratic Congress (ADC) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar as a commissioner on a White House presidential commission. This was announced on Thursday, 3 September 2026, by Von Batten-Montague-York, L.C. in a now-trending post shared on X. Atiku hired…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Egypt welcomed nearly 19 million tourists in 2025, according to Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities. The country now aims to attract 30 million tourists annually by 2030, creating a clear need for additional airline capacity. The challenge is not simply finding more aircraft. Airlines must decide how much capacity they…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A 68-year-old British woman who married a 31-year-old Nigerian man when he was just 27 has cried out after he disappeared after joining her in the UK. Dawn Otewell said she was lonely and depressed when she met Bright Emokpae, from Edo State, Nigeria. She said they met on a…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu on Sunday, formally reported the recurring xenophobic and Afrophobic attacks against Africans and other nationals in South Africa to the African Union, warning that the incidents undermine the continent’s solidarity, unity and peaceful coexistence. Specifically, he requested prompt collective action from the continent’s leaders, including the placement of this…
LAGOS AUGUST 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s records with United States law enforcement agencies has taken another turn with opposition parties demanding that the documents be made public. The African Democratic Congress (ADC) and the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) have questioned the President’s decision to oppose the release of the records, insisting that Nigerians…
