LAGOS JUNE 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Burkina Faso’s leader, Captain Ibrahim Traoré, has reportedly turned down Nigerian music superstar Burna Boy’s offer to host a free concert in the West African country. According to reports by Burkina Faso-based media outletTrulilgramon Instagram, Burna Boy had proposed the concert via his secondary Instagram account, expressing a desire to perform for…
LAGOS JUNE 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-An Osun State High Court, sitting in Iwo, has sentenced an Islamic cleric, Kabiru Ibrahim, to death by hanging for the murder of his client, Lukman Adeleke. Ibrahim was charged with conspiracy, murder, and theft, contrary to Sections 324, 319(1), and 390 of the Criminal Code, Cap. 34, Laws of Osun State….
LAGOS JUNE 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A large advertising billboard collapsed on several tricycles carrying passengers at Salad Market junction near the GIA Event Centre in Aba, Abia State, on Wednesday afternoon. The collapse happened during heavy rain and strong winds, trapping and injuring numerous people. Eyewitnesses reported that the billboard suddenly gave way, crushing the tricycles beneath…
LAGOS JUNE 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Two bridges have collapsed overnight in separate incidents in Russian regions bordering Ukraine, killing at least seven people and injuring dozens more. State media said the collapses were being probed as “acts of terrorism”. A road bridge came down in Bryansk, bringing several heavy trucks onto a moving passenger train late on…
LAGOS JUNE 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Conservative Karol Nawrocki has won Poland’s weekend presidential runoff election, according to the final vote count. Nawrocki won 50.89% of votes in a nail biting final race against liberal Warsaw Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski, who received 49.11%. He will succeed conservative Andrzej Duda, whose second and final term ends on 6 August. The…
LAGOS MAY 26TH 9NEWSRANGERS)-A former flight attendant caught smuggling over 100 pounds of a deadly new synthetic drug made of human bones faces up to 25 years in a Sri Lankan prison. Charlotte May Lee, 21, from the United Kingdom, was seized at Bandaranaike Airport in the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo earlier this month after…
LAGOS MAY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Saudi Arabian authorities have prevented the Kaduna-based Islamic cleric Sheikh Gumi from performing the 2025 Hajj exercise, the PUNCH reports. In a post on his Facebook page on Monday, the cleric confirmed that he had returned to the country, adding that the Saudi authorities were “uncomfortable” with his presence in the…
LAGOS MAY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Popular Nigerian activist Harrison Gwamnishu has given an update on the widely discussed case of a Nigerian returnee who lost ₦150 million from his United Bank for Africa (UBA) account under suspicious circumstances. The case gained public attention after a video emerged of the victim, who remains unnamed, explaining how ₦150 million…
