LAGOS NOVEMBER 1ST (MEWSRANGERS)-Spanish protesters blaming Pedro Sánchez’s government for a train crash that killed at least 69 people have clashed with riot police. More than 1,000 people demonstrated outside the transport ministry in Madrid on Wednesday after two trains travelling to Seville from the capital crashed that morning. The driver had been wrongly informed…
LAGOS OCTOBER 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Cost-of-living protests that began in France have spread to Germany where demonstrations to coincide with Halloween were underway on Saturday, with tens of thousands of people turning out across the country. The new German youth-led movement dubbed “Gen Z has got this!” is protesting against the high cost of living, underfunded…
LAGOS OCTOBER 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Raids against online scam centres in Madagascar have exposed ties with a criminal group that ran similar operations in Cambodia, also duping African nationals via alleged human trafficking, authorities told AFP. Conducting romance, cryptocurrency and investment fraud, the sites were mostly operated by Chinese nationals, 148 of whom have been extradited to…
LAGOS OCTOBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-On October 23, 2026, a federal grand jury indicted Emuobosan Emmanuella Hall, 46, of Atlanta, Georgia, for failing to report to the Bureau of Prisons to serve a sentence. Ms Hall, a Nigerian citizen and U.S. permanent resident, was sentenced to eight years in prison by U.S. District Judge Jane Milazzo for…
LAGOS OCTOBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Three people are dead after two helicopters collided in midair near an Oregon airport on Thursday, according to local authorities. The incident involved a 1995 Robinson R22 helicopter and a 2018 Airbus AS350B3 helicopter and occurred at approximately 2:10 p.m. local time Thursday near McMinnville, about 40 miles southwest of Portland, according…
LAGOS OCTOBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)- Hackers stole $6.3 billion from Binance, the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange, in a record theft that analysts pinned on North Korea and said could shake faith in digital assets. Cryptocurrency prices fell on the news, while Binance halted withdrawals and said it would cover the losses. About half the stolen assets…
LAGOS OCTOBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An Iraqi court sentenced seven French nationals to prison on Tuesday for belonging to the Islamic State group. Iraq’s Supreme Judicial Council sentenced Lakhdar Sebouai, Adel Bou Aoun, Anas Abdul Rahman, Ziad Ahmad, Mehdi Sida and Benjamin Van Han to life imprisonment, which under Iraqi law is equivalent to 20 years. The…
LAGOS OCTOBER 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Kash Patel, has said a recent operation targeting international cybercrime networks resulted in nine arrests in Nigeria and the seizure of 53 electronic devices. Patel also disclosed that the operation led to the identification of $11m in potentially freezable funds across multiple countries. He…
