LAGOS AUGUST 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Germany was forced to abandon nearly 9,000 deportations this year because state authorities lost track of migrants. The government postponed 8,826 forced returns in the first half of the year after migrants went into hiding or failed to declare their current address, figures show. The deportations were targeting rejected asylum seekers,…
LAGOS AUGUST 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Bola Tinubu will join world leaders to address the 81st Session of the United Nations General Assembly General Debate on Wednesday, September 23, in New York. Tinubu is scheduled to be the 10th speaker during the morning session on the second day of the high-level General Debate, which will be held…
LAGOS AUGUST 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A helicopter carrying six tourists and a pilot has crashed in Kenya‘s Samburu county, north of the capital, Nairobi, killing all those on board, authorities have said. The accident happened at 09:13 a.m. local time (0613 GMT), on Wednesday, according to the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority (KCAA), after the aircraft departed from…
LAGOS AUGUST 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Bola Tinubu has joined a request by the US Department of Justice for a 10-day extension to respond to a court order over the release of records linking him to alleged drug trafficking. Von Batten-Montague-York, a Washington-based lobbying firm employed by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, disclosed this in a post…
LAGOS AUGUST 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A young British couple and their pilot were killed in a helicopter crash on the Greek island of Sifnos on Monday, Greek police have said. They have been named as newlyweds Alexander Cromie and Marie Ebert, who were in Greece on their honeymoon. The private Bell 206 helicopter crashed just metres from…
LAGOS AUGUST 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A shooting reportedly erupted outside around the time Tupac Shakur‘s family left a Las Vegas courthouse for lunch on the second day of Duane “Keffe D” Davis’ murder trial. Davis, 63, is charged in Shakur’s 1996 killing, which prosecutors allege was carried out to avenge Shakur’s entourage attacking Davis’ nephew, Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson, a…
LAGOS AUGUST 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 4.9 magnitude earthquake struck southern Spain on Tuesday, injuring three people and forcing hotels to be evacuated. The tremor sent debris falling from buildings in Granada in Spain’s Andalusia region days after a slightly stronger quake had hit the southern Spanish city. The Alhambra Palace, a Unesco-listed jewel of medieval Islamic…
LAGOS AUGUST 19TH (NEWSRANGERS) – Some women who entered Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta on July 30 as part of a mass migrant crossing say the hardships of sleeping rough as they wait to be registered are compounded by the threat and fear of sexual harassment. More than a dozen women have set up…
