LAGOS DECEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-At least 15 people have been killed in a shooting in central Prague, according to Czech emergency services. At least 24 others have been wounded, according to the Czech rescue service. Police previously said the gunman – a 24-year-old student at the faculty of arts at Charles University in Prague – had…
LAGOS DECEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Taiwan’s military said it is searching for three sailors after they fell off a submarine, an incident that comes as Taiwan builds up its fleet to deter China from invading. Six officers and crew were swept off the vessel while carrying out a repair during a mission on Thursday, the Defense Ministry…
LAGOS DECEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Christmas is traditionally a boom time in Bethlehem. Crowds of tourists and pilgrims usually throng the streets, keen to visit where Jesus is said to have been born. This year, however, the roads are empty, the shops shut, and Manger Square, the town’s centre, will be silent. The Church of the Nativity,…
LAGOS DECEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A second-hand dealer has won a case to keep the €4.2m (£3.6m; $4.6m) proceeds from the sale of a rare African mask he found in an elderly French couple’s attic. He had been brought in to help clear the attic of the couple, who sold him the mask for €150 (£129; $165)….
LAGOS DECEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The death toll from China’s worst earthquake since 2014 rose to more than 130 as the government sent a top official to oversee recovery efforts. Some 113 people were killed in mostly rural areas of Gansu province, state broadcaster China Central Television reported on Tuesday. The death toll in neighboring Qinghai climbed…
LAGOS DECEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Police in Uganda are holding a 110-year-old man over accusations of stabbing his 109-year-old wife to death for denying him conjugal rights. The Daily Monitor newspaper reports that Dominic Babiiha allegedly murdered Costansio Bakasisa with a billhook on Saturday at their matrimonial home in Kahunga, in the western district of Ntungamo. The…
LAGOS DECEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The United Nations Migration Agency, International Organization for Migration (IOM), has advised potential migrants to be cautious of a syndicate that specializes in offering fake employment letters to Nigerians seeking to work in the United Kingdom, UK. Urging them to seek out proper information before embarking on any migration, the IOM disclosed…
LAGOS DECEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Cambridge University College has announced Nigerian Professor Ijeoma Ukaegbu ( PhD Pharmacy) as its next president. Professor Uchegbu is currently a professor of pharmaceutical neuroscience at University College London (UCL). She was raised in South East Nigeria and Hackney. She completed her pharmacy studies at the University of Benin in 1981 before attending…