LAGOS DECEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At least three people were killed and dozens wounded in a bomb attack on a Catholic Mass in the insurgency-plagued southern Philippines on Sunday, with President Ferdinand Marcos blaming “foreign terrorists”. The blast happened during a regular service at Mindanao State University’s gymnasium in Marawi, the country’s largest Muslim city, regional police…
LAGOS DECEMBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A protester with a Palestinian flag self-immolated on Friday outside the Israeli consulate in Atlanta, authorities said. The person, whom officials did not identify, is in critical condition, Police Chief Darin Schierbaum said at a news conference. A security guard who attempted to intervene was also injured. “We believe this building remains…
LAGOS DECEMBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The inmate who attacked Derek Chauvin, the onetime Minneapolis police officer convicted in 2021 of murdering George Floyd, stabbed the former cop 22 times according to multiple reports. Chauvin is serving a sentence of 22 and a half years in prison. The details were released in charging documents obtained by AP and…
LAGOS DECEMBER 2BD (NEWSRANGERS)-Oregon Tool Incorporated, a U.S.-based company that sells farming equipment and precision cutting tools, has reached an agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice to pay $1.7 million fine for shipping multibillion-naira worth of tools to two Nigerian fraudsters known as ‘Yahoo Boys’, without carrying out due diligence, documents obtained by Peoples…
LAGOS NOVEMBeR 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The death toll from floods that have devastated many parts of Kenya has almost doubled to 120, a government official said on Tuesday. More than 89,000 households have also been displaced and are being sheltered in over 112 camps, top interior ministry official Raymond Omollo said in a statement. Kenya and its…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former South Africa footballer, Papi Khomane, has tragically died in a car crash alongside his mother and uncle, his old club Orlando Pirates have revealed. Khomane, 48, who made nine international caps for Bafana Bafana and 151 domestic appearances for Orlando Pirates, was on his way to a funeral in Newcastle, South…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A US military aircraft with eight people onboard crashed into the sea in western Japan on Wednesday, with several media outlets reporting one crew member had died and the condition of at least two hauled from waters was unclear. Japan’s coast guard said what appeared to be wreckage from the tilt-rotor V-22…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The presidential candidate of the Labour Party and the former Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi, has described Africa as the right continent for trade and investment. Obi made this remark on Monday while speaking at the opening of the two-day Commonwealth Trade and Investment Summit in London that started…
