Archive for: November, 2017

Nigerian Surgeon Breaks Record, Removes Largest Fibroid Tumour (PHOTOS)

http://ift.tt/2Amg0H5 Ether Akinade carrying the removed tumour LAGOS NOVEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A Lagos hospital has successfully removed the world’s largest fibroid tumour from a patient. An independent laboratory has confirmed that the tumour weighed 26 kilogrammes, double the size removed by Indian doctors around the same time last year. The medical team at Safe Hand Hospital, […]

Amnesty Int’l: Boko Haram Killed 375 Civilians In 2017

http://ift.tt/2zYGUo4 LAGOS NOVEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Amnesty International (AI) said Boko Haram militants have killed 357 civilians this year during 55 attacks in north-eastern Nigeria. The organisation said the deadliest month was in August, when the militant group killed 100 people, followed by November, with 76 people killed already. In a statement yesterday AI Nigeria Director, Osai […]

Pop Idol, David Cassidy Passes On At 67

http://ift.tt/2B1ufxF David Cassidy LAGOS NOVEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-David Cassidy, pop culture idol of the 1970s, has died as a result of complications from dementia. The musician and actor was 67. His publicist JoAnn Geffen confirmed his death. Cassidy announced his diagnosis with dementia in early 2017, and reports indicate he died as a result of organ […]

Mugabe Finally Bows Out As Zimbabwe’s President, Ending Four Decades Of Rule

http://ift.tt/2zWrXTx Robert Mugabe LAGOSNOVEMBER 22ST (NEWSRANGERS)– Robert Mugabe resigned as Zimbabwe’s president on Tuesday a week after the army and his former political allies moved against him, ending four decades of rule by a man who turned from independence hero to archetypal strongman. The 93-year-old had clung on for a week after an army takeover […]

Ibori Accuses Nigerians For Shedding ‘Crocodile Tears’ Over Death Of Alex Ekweme

http://ift.tt/2mMmHwa Chief James Ibori LAGOS NOVEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Delta State Governor, James Ibori, has said Nigerians are “shedding Crocodile tears” over the death of former Vice President Alex Ekwueme. Ibori said this in a statement by signed his spokesman, Tony Eluemunor. The former Governor said the country refused to allow Ekwueme rescue it. “Though His […]

Lagos: Why We Killed FESTAC Big Boy- Friends

http://ift.tt/2zmTkXh FESTAC Big Boy, Emmanuel Uba in a pool of his own blood after being shot by his friends LAGOS NOVEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Detectives attached to the Inspector-General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team have arrested four men for allegedly killing Emmanuel Uba, alias Owan, at the Festac area of Lagos State. The suspects: Michael Fashola […]

45 Days And Counting: Cameroonians Live Without Internet Services

http://ift.tt/2zX1WD2 President Paul Biya LAGOS NOVEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The government of Cameroon has within the last one year shut down the Internet in its attempt to clampdown on demonstrations by aggrieved citizens of the two English-speaking regions of the country. Leaders of the North-west and South-west regions of Cameroon have accused the central government of discrimination […]

Nigeria: 50 Killed, Scores Injured In Early Morning Bomb Attack In Adamawa Mosque

http://ift.tt/2AYV3yc LAGOS NOVEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS) – No fewer than 50 people were killed on Tuesday when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a mosque in northeast Nigeria, police said, in an attack blamed on Boko Haram jihadists. The blast happened during early morning prayers at the Madina mosque in the Unguwar Shuwa area of […]

Brazil: Off-Duty Officer Shoots Two Robbers to Death While Holding His Baby

http://ift.tt/2mLPT6z LAGOS NOVEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-An off-duty cop shopping in a pharmacy shot to death two armed robbers while holding his baby son. Surveillance video from the store shows Sgt. Rafael Souza of the military police in Brazil running after hooded men and firing a gun at both of them, CBS News reported, citing Britain’s Independent […]

Trump Sets To Deport 60,000 Haitans With Temporary Permits

http://ift.tt/2zlMxgv LAGOS NOVEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Trump administration said Monday it is ending a temporary residency permit program that has allowed almost 60,000 citizens from Haiti to live and work in the United States since a 2010 powerful earthquake shook the Caribbean nation. The Homeland Security Department said conditions in Haiti have improved significantly, so the […]

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