LAGOS NOVEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)- – Five U.S. special operations troops were killed on Friday when their helicopter crashed into the Mediterranean Sea during a training mission, U.S. officials said on Sunday. U.S. European Command said search and rescue operations were launched immediately following the crash, and an investigation into its cause is under way. The…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Desperate Palestinians have begun attacking Hamas security forces as tensions grow in Gaza over chronic shortages of food, water and medicine. In rare acts of defiance, Gazans hurled rocks at Hamas police who tried to jump a queue for water, and openly insulted Hamas officials, witnesses said. The clashes suggest that Hamas’s…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-South Africa said Monday that it would remove all its diplomats from Israel because of mounting concerns over “the continued killing of children and innocent civilians in the Palestinian territories.” South African Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor told reporters that Israel’s response to Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack “has become one of collective punishment.”…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Hilda Baci, the Nigerian Jollof Queen, who recently achieved a new Guinness World Records (GWR) for the longest cook-a-thon, has been dethroned, barely five months after. The GWR had in June announced that Hilda is the new record holder for the longest cooking marathon (individual), after reviewing all footage of the exercise. 93…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Canada is investigating an explosion at its embassy in Nigeria that killed two people, Foreign Minister Melanie Joly said on Monday, as Ottawa joined Washington and London in issuing a warning against nonessential travel to the West African nation. “We can confirm there was an explosion at our High Commission in Nigeria….
LAGOS NOVEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-After a protracted three-year legal battle, an Accra court has delivered a verdict today affirming Asamoah Gyan’s paternity of the three children born to Gifty Gyan. The court has decreed that Asamoah Gyan is obligated to provide financial support to Gifty Gyan in the form of a monthly stipend of 25,000 Ghana…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 1TS (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pushed back on activists demanding a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, saying such an agreement would be a “gift” for the terrorist government. The former presidential candidate made the remarks during the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy’s 30th anniversary event on Thursday. “People…
By Yushau Shuaib LAGOS OCTOBER 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-“Ladies and Gentlemen. This is your Captain speaking. We regret to announce that because of a technical problem, we have to return to Paris for safety and security.”_ That was the announcement made by the Captain of the Abuja-bound Air France flight on Monday, October 23, 2023, that had…