LAGOS JUNE 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Coast Guard announced Thursday that it believed the five passengers who disappeared while attempting to explore the Titanic shipwreck were likely lost due to a “catastrophic implosion” of their vessel. U.S. Coast Guard Rear Adm. John Mauger announced at a press conference that on Thursday morning, five major pieces of debris…
LAGOS JUNE 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-In the days before the Titan vessel went into the ocean off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada, the 19-year-old university student accompanying his father on the expedition expressed hesitation about going, his aunt said in an interview Thursday. Azmeh Dawood — the older sister of Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood — told NBC…
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Titanic tourist submersible that vanished on a trip to the 111-year-old shipwreck at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean is believed to have run out of oxygen — but authorities pushed ahead with the search operation Thursday morning. OceanGate Expeditions, which operates the Titan sub and whose CEO, Stockton Rush, is…
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) has adjusted the remuneration of President Bola Tinubu, Vice President Kashim Shettima, and other political and judicial officeholders by 114 per cent. Mr Tinubu will earn N8,013,527 monthly, a 114 per cent increase from former President Muhammadu Buhari’s monthly salary of N3,514,705, according to…
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate in the last election, Peter Obi, has reacted to the recent comments made by Bill Gates on the surge of young Nigerian professionals leaving the country, in search of greener pastures. Naija News reports that the Microsoft co-founder on Wednesday addressed the ‘Japa’ phenomenon during an…
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Many waterways Transportation passengers are lamenting over the hike in transport fares by boat operators over the removal of fuel subsidy by the Federal Government. This is even as some passengers have been forced to move by road due to increasing cost of waterways Transportation. Speaking with the Nigerian Tribune exclusively, some…
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Fifteen people have died of alcohol poisoning in Iran after consuming bootleg booze, state media reported on Wednesday, as the number of similar deaths increases across the country. ‘So far, 15 people have died and 180 people have been poisoned and hospitalised,’ Hossein Fazeli Harikandi, the chief justice of Alborz province, where…
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A Wuse Zone II Magistrates’ Court in Abuja, on Wednesday, sentenced a journalist, Sanusi Inuwa, to three years in prison for N10.2 million fraud. Inuwa, 47, claims to be the publisher/Editor-in-Chief of Daily Focus newspaper. The court imposed the sentence after finding Inuwa guilty of defrauding one Hamza Galadima of the said…