LAGOS SEPTEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Hulk Hogan left behind nearly $5 million after his death in July, and now, new court documents reveal a sole beneficiary of his estate. According to new court documents obtained by US Weekly and TMZ, the late WWE star’s son Nick Hogan is named co-personal representative of Hulk’s estate and will inherit…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Larry Ellison has overtaken Elon Musk as the world’s richest person after shares in his software giant Oracle soared on Wednesday. Ellison’s fortune was up $101 billion mid-morning after the company’s revenue forecasts for the next five years caused its market value to rise 44% to more than $959 billion. The…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 5TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-Over 800 people have been confirmed dead following an earthquake that struck eastern Afghanistan. Interior Ministry spokesman Abdul Mateen Qani confirmed that the vast majority of the deaths reported so far were in Kunar province. Al Jazeera reported that 2,500people have been injured after an earthquake destroyed numerous villages in the…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 2ND (NEWSRNAGERS)-A court in Finland has sentenced a controversial leader of a Nigerian secessionist movement to six years in prison after convicting him of terrorism-related offences. Simon Ekpa, a Finnish citizen of Nigerian origin, “attempted to promote the independence of the so-called Biafra region in south-eastern Nigeria by illegal means”, according to…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)- The Iran-backed Houthis raided offices of the United Nations’ food, health and children’s agencies in Yemen’s capital Sunday, detaining at least 11 U.N. employees, officials said. The rebels tightened security across Sanaa after Israel killed their prime minister and several Cabinet members. Abeer Etefa, a spokesperson for the World Food Program,…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)- Sunday’s raids followed the killing of the Houthi prime minister and several of his Cabinet members in an Israeli strike Thursday. It was a blow to the Iran-backed rebels who have launched attacks on Israel and ships in the Red Sea in relation to the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza…
LAGOS AUGUST 26TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-A passenger suffering from delirium tried to break into the cockpit of an Easyjet flight from France to Portugal, forcing the jet to return to Lyon airport, police and the company said Saturday. The man was subdued by other passengers and restrained until the jet landed again, French police said. The Easyjet…
LAGOS AUGUST 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A federal judge in Miami late on Thursday ordered the closure of the Trump administration’s notorious “Alligator Alcatraz” immigration jail within 60 days, and ruled that no more detainees were to be brought to the facility while it was being wound down. The shock ruling by district court judge Kathleen Williams builds…