LAGOS AUGUST 6TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-Ugandans are mourning the death at 27 of one of the country’s best-known footballers after he was beaten by suspected robbers near his home in the capital, Kampala. Police said David Owori was fatally assaulted after resisting an attempt to steal his mobile phone and other belongings, prompting an outpouring of…
LAGOS AUGUST 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Mexican influencer, César Gastélum, has been shot dead while livestreaming on social media. Gastélum was filming with two friends outside a fast food restaurant in Tres Ríos, in the northern city of Culiacán, on Tuesday evening when when two men on a motorbike drove up to him and one shot him…
LAGOS AUGUST 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Migrants are using social media to plan another mass border crossing into Ceuta. At least four WhatsApp groups, 10 Facebook groups and more than 50 Instagram accounts have been used to discuss plans to cross from Morocco to the Spanish exclave on Aug 15, according to analysis by Maldita.es, a fact-checking non-profit…
LAGOS AUGUST 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A small plane carrying tourists has crashed in Peru, killing all 13 people on board, according to local news reports and Peruvian officials. The aircraft, a Cessna Caravan C-208, had been flying over Nazca Lines archaeological site when it went down on Saturday. Eleven passengers and two pilots were on board. The…
LAGOS AUGUST 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-President Donald Trump in a Saturday evening social media post claimed that Mideast allies have reached the parameters of a deal to end the Iran war and said that he would hold off on ordering new strikes in the five-month old conflict for now. Trump added that the emerging deal “would…
LAGOS AUGUST 1ST (NEWSRNAGERS)-Dozens of people have been injured after an earthquake hit Naples. The 4.7-magnitude quake – believed to be the most powerful to hit the region in 40 years – struck Campania overnight in the night and was followed by dozens of aftershocks. Around 21 people were injured, two of them seriously, and…
LAGOS AUGUST 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)- – Spain said on Friday it had reversed a huge rush of migrants into a Spanish enclave in North Africa, with most of the more than 50,000 people who had crossed the border by land and sea already heading back voluntarily. The Spanish government’s representative in Ceuta said 57 bodies…
LAGOS JULY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Ghana’s government has accepted a recommendation to extend the presidential term from four to five years, the West African country’s justice minister said on Thursday. President John Dramani Mahama set up a committee last year that reviewed the 1992 constitution and made recommendations, some of which were accepted by the government. Attorney…
