LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian college student is believed to have fallen to his death from the 16th floor of a condominium in Batu Uban, Gelugor, last night while attempting to escape a police raid. The incident occurred around 6pm when the 37-year-old man’s residence was raided by Penang police’s narcotics criminal investigation department, Berita […]
LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Moscow has accused Ukraine’s military of shooting down a plane, which it says was carrying 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war The plane came down near the Russian city of Belgorod, close to the Ukrainian border “On board were 65 captured Ukrainian army servicemen being transported for exchange, six crew members and three […]
LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday said the United States is determined to remain a strong security partner for Nigeria, whose military is backed by the U.S., Britain and other allies in a long war against Islamist insurgents. Blinken also discussed challenges to democracy and security in the region during his […]
LAGOS JANUARY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The World Bank estimates that improved access to Internet coverage over three years led to a seven per cent reduction in extreme poverty in Nigeria and Tanzania. The bank disclosed this in a new brief titled, “Digital transformation drives development in Africa.” It said Internet access also led to an increase of […]
LAGOS JANUARY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Sierra Leone’s ex-president Ernest Bai Koroma left the West African country by plane and flew to Nigeria on Friday, two Reuters reporters said, after a court allowed him to travel abroad on medical grounds despite treason charges. On Jan. 3, 70-year-old Koroma was charged with four offences for his alleged role in […]
LAGOS JANUARY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A freight attendant who allegedly ‘slipped’ illicit drugs into the luggage of a passenger at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport is in the custody of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA). The agency confirmed the development on Friday, after a video of the incident went viral on Thursday, eliciting reactions from […]
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LAGOS JANUARY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Israeli hostages Itay Svirsky and Yossi Sharabi, among more than 240 people kidnapped Oct. 7, were murdered by Hamas and their bodies are being held by the militant group in Gaza, the Kibbutz Be’eri said. Earlier this week Hamas released videos showing Sharabi, 53, Svirsky, 38, and Noa Argamani, 26, urging Prime […]
LAGOS JANUARY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former Sierra Leonean president has been granted permission to travel abroad on medical grounds despite facing treason charges. The High Court ruling comes amid speculation that Ernest Bai Koroma has agreed to go into exile in Nigeria if charges against him were dropped. He was accused of treason and other offences […]
LAGOS JANUARY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Arnold Schwarzenegger was detained by customs officers at the Munich airport on Wednesday for not declaring a luxury watch he was wearing while traveling to Austria, a customs spokesperson confirmed to CBS News. Schwarzenegger, 76, was detained for three hours at the airport in Germany, a source familiar with the incident told CBS […]
LAGOS JANUARY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A North Carolina man who spent 44 years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of r@ping a woman in 1976 has reached a historic $25 million (about N25 billion) combined settlement in a civil lawsuit in the U.S. Ronnie Long, 68, received $22 million from the city and $3 million from the […]