LAGOS SEPTEMBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-With over 800,000 tons of fish worth two billion dollars lost yearly to pirate activities, Brazilian Navy Ship, Fragata INDEPENDENCIA, has arrived Nigeria for maritime interdiction mission code named ‘ GUNEX’ in the Gulf of Guinea. Speaking with The Guardian on Thursday, the Ambassador of Brazil in Nigeria, H. E. Ricardo Guerra…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Police in South Africa have arrested the husband of a Regional Court Magistrate, Mamello Thamae,40, after her body was discovered in the boot of their car in Lesotho. Police had on Friday, September 22, 2023, launched a manhunt after Thamae and her husband, Lehlohonolo Maketoane, were reported missing. At the time, SAPS…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The World Bank has approved a fresh $700m loan for Nigeria to enhance adolescent girls’ learning and empowerment. It disclosed this in a statement published on its website on Friday. The new loan is to provide additional funds for an ongoing project known as the Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment….
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Kylian Mbappe went off with a suspected ankle injury as Paris St-Germain returned to winning ways in Ligue 1 with an easy victory over Marseille. PSG’s star forward tried to carry on after an early challenge with Leonardo Balerdi but went off before half-time. Mbappe could be a doubt when the French…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 34 people have died as a result of an explosion at a fuel depot in Benin Republic, Alarabiya is reporting. Citing an unnamed government official, the newspaper reported that the explosion happened on Saturday at a contraband fuel depot leaving dozens of charred bodies at the site. The depot…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Pope Francis on Saturday urged European governments to welcome migrants instead of viewing them as invaders, striding into in a hugely sensitive political debate again inflamed by mass arrivals on the second day of his visit to France’s Mediterranean port of Marseille. The pontiff made the comments hours before he leads a…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen in Nigeria killed eight people on Sunday and abducted at least 60 others in two communities of northwest Zamfara state, residents and a local traditional leader said, two days after armed men kidnapped dozens from a university in the state. Elsewhere, in the northeast of the country suspected Islamist insurgents ambushed…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Troops of Operation Safe Haven have arrested a gun manufacturing syndicate in Kaduna State and recovered a total of 26 weapons from them, including AK-47 rifles, revolvers, and a submachine gun. The discovery followed a week-long intelligence operation that led to the capture of a wanted gunrunner, Napoleon John, and another suspect,…