LAGOS OCTOBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A United States lawmaker, Riley Moore, has welcomed the reported arrest of Mahmoud Adam, whom he described as a radical Islamic Fulani terrorist leader allegedly responsible for the killing of Christians in Nigeria. Moore, a Republican member of the US House of Representatives, made the comment in a post on X on…
LAGOS OCTOBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says investigations suggest the man who stabbed his fellow pilot and tried to take over a flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv had undergone “Islamist radical indoctrination”. The Flydubai plane plunged more than 17,000ft (5,200m) two hours into its journey on Wednesday, before passengers and crew overpowered…
LAGOS OCTOBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A mosque in London is under investigation by the charities watchdog after a preacher encouraged husbands to beat their wives. Yasin Munye, an Islamic scholar at Hackney Islamic Community Centre, urged men to “discipline” their wives if they disobeyed them, footage posted on the mosque’s YouTube channel showed. The National Secular Society…
LAGOS OCTOBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-More Nigerians are dying in South Africa due to attacks associated with the growing xenophobic violence in the country. The Nigerian Ambassador to South Africa, Femi Fani-Kayode, disclosed on Monday night the deaths of three other Nigerians murdered in separate incidents. Mr Fani-Kayode said the three were all killed in September on…
LAGOS OCTOBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Five crew members of an oil tanker seized by pirates off the coast of Somalia were killed before local security forces retook the vessel, a senior regional official has told the BBC. Puntland Deputy Information Minister Bile Qabowsade said the five were killed by pirates before regional forces boarded MT Hoarner…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 26TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-One hundred Nigerians repatriated from South Africa through the humanitarian intervention of the Redeemed Christian Church of God arrived at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos, on Thursday night. The returnees were the first batch of 500 Nigerians whose air transportation from Johannesburg to Lagos is being funded by the…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-For more than a month, 21-year-old Anis Fadi, a university graduate and qualified accountant, has been sleeping in a makeshift shelter. At the end of July, he crossed the border from Morocco to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, on the North African coast, along with about 70,000 others. At his migrant camp…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Police in South Africa have launched a manhunt after 11 people were killed and three were injured in a mass shooting. Authorities believe the incident took place during a house party in the Ziko area of the KwaMakhutha township, near the city of Durban, in KwaZulu-Natal province, on Tuesday, Sept. 22, according…
