LAGOS DECEMBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-More than 90 Palestinians, including dozens from an extended family, were killed in Israeli airstrikes on two homes in Gaza, rescuers and hospital officials said Saturday, a day after the U.N. chief warned that nowhere is safe in the territory and that Israel’s offensive creates “massive obstacles” to distribution of humanitarian aid….
LAGOS DECEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A former Director of Corporate Banking at First Bank of Nigeria, Adetunji Fadahunsi-Jones, has been arraigned for an alleged bribery offence in the United Kingdom. Adetunji’s arraignment came after a National Crime Agency investigation. Adetunji, 45, of Hertfordshire, oversaw the bank’s contact with a significant businessman in Nigeria’s oil, gas and petroleum…
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…
