LAGOS AUGUST 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Drought-stricken Namibia plans to cull over 700 wild animals, including 83 elephants, and distribute the meat to people struggling to feed themselves. The environment ministry says the cull will take place in parks and communal areas where officials believe animal numbers exceed available grazing land and water supplies. In addition to elephants, […]
LAGOS AUGUST 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A COUPLE jumped to their deaths while clutching their baby in a desperate attempt to escape their burning flat. The pair jumped from the seventh-floor apartment in Brazil with their two-month-old son in front of horrified onlookers. Luiz Evaldo Lima, Graciane Rosa de Oliveira, and baby Léo Oliveira de Lima died on […]
LAGOS AUGUST 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian woman based in Ontario, Canada, has appeared in a disturbing video calling for the killing of South-Westerners and the people of Benin, Edo State capital through mass poisoning. The woman, who made the call in a TikTok live meeting video making the rounds on social media, vowed to start poisoning […]
LAGOS AUGUST 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Six Polish students and a lecturer from the Warsaw University who were detained in Nigeria during protests there have been released, the Polish foreign ministry said Wednesday. They are in good health and will be returning home this week. The ministry’s spokesman, Pawel Wronski, said the seven Polish citizens have had their […]
LAGOS AUGUST 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Bedouin Arab hostage rescued from an underground tunnel in Gaza said one of his fellow detainees died next to him during his time in captivity, a former Israeli official said. Kaid Farhan Elkadi was rescued on Tuesday in a “complex operation in the southern Gaza Strip”, the Israeli military said. Mr […]
LAGOS AUGUST 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Board granted asylum to at least 1,467 Nigerians, who applied for refugee protection from January 2023 to March 2024. This brings the total number of accepted asylum claims filed by Nigerians to 11,370 from 2012 to Q1 2024, as shown by data from the Refugee Protection Division of […]
LAGOS AUGUST 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Three people have been killed and another four seriously injured in a knife attack in the western German city of Solingen, police say. The attack happened during a festival in the city centre on Friday evening. The attacker is reported to be still at large. German media outlet Bild says a man […]
LAGOS AUGUST 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A client who admitted trying to murder his own solicitor in his office has been jailed for 11 years. Esayas Neguse entered the Glasgow office of Muhammad Shoaib in September 2022 and stabbed him in the neck and body with a knife. As two of Shoaib’s colleagues tried to intervene, he headbutted one […]
LAGOS AUGUST 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Springdale Academy of Maritime Education and Training Trust (SAMET) in India has petitioned the Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) over alleged breach of contractual agreement with Maritime Labour and Cabotage Services. SAMET in the petition dated July 19, 2024 through its Nigerian legal firm, Kunle Adegoke […]
LAGOS AUGUST 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Nigeria’s Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, along with other prominent Nigerian political figures, is presently attending the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, United States, as a special guest of the National Democratic Institute (NDI), a Washington, DC-based organisation dedicated to promoting democratic values worldwide. Among the notable attendees are the […]
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