LAGOS JULY 24TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-A Nigerian man, Abiola Quadri, has been sentenced to over 11 years in federal prison in the United States for orchestrating a $1.3 million fraud scheme involving stolen identities to claim COVID-19 pandemic unemployment and disability benefits. The 43-year-old, a permanent resident of Pasadena, California, used the illicit funds to construct…
Russian officials say 48 people were killed when an Angara Airlines plane went down in a dense forest in the far-eastern Amur region. The Antonov An-24 plane, carrying 42 passengers and six crew, had left Blagoveshchensk close to the Chinese border and vanished from radar screens as it approached Tynda airport, officials said. A…
LAGOS JULY 23RD (NEWSRNAGERS)-A 52-year-old bank manager has committed su!cide in Pune district in India. Shiv Shankar Mitra, the chief manager of Bank of Baroda in Baramati town was found hanging from a ceiling hook in his cabin. The Baramati City police recovered a note purportedly written by him from one of the pockets of…
LAGOS JULY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-At least 20 people died and more than 170 were injured after a Bangladeshi air force training jet crashed into a school campus in the capital, Dhaka. Footage from Milestone School and College in the suburb of Uttara showed a huge fire and thick smoke, after the aircraft slammed into a…
LAGOS JULY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-At least 37 people died after a tourist boat capsized in Vietnam during a thunderstorm on Saturday, state media announced. Five people are reportedly still missing. The boat, called The Wonder Sea, was carrying 48 passengers and five crew members, all Vietnamese nationals. They had been on a sightseeing excursion of Ha…
LAGOS JULY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Officials say a plane made an emergency landing on a golf course in upstate South Carolina on Thursday. The Federal Aviation Administration said a Piper PA-46 made an emergency landing on the course at the Reserve at Lake Keowee around 11:50 a.m. Old Edwards Reserve at Lake Keowee said the plane was…
LAGOS JULY 19TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-A regional jet made an emergency landing in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Thursday evening after a passenger tried to open an emergency exit door and got into an altercation with a flight attendant. Delta Connection flight 3612, operated by SkyWest Airlines, was flying from Omaha to Detroit when the disturbance happened around…
LAGOS JULY 19TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-Russian customs authorities said Wednesday that they seized 820 kilograms (1,800 pounds) of cocaine hidden under a shipment of bananas, calling it their largest bust of drugs from Latin America this year. The haul, valued at more than 12 billion rubles ($153 million), was uncovered in banana containers with the help…
