LAGOS JUNE 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A man in a prison costume, another in Uncle Sam’s garb and another as a circus barker vied for the attention of the media scrum outside the courthouse Tuesday as Donald Trump prepared to become the first former president in the nation’s history to face federal criminal charges. It’s the second criminal…
LAGOS JUNE 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Detectives assigned to the Narcotics Division charged a female flight attendant for breaches of the Dangerous Drugs Act (DDA) on Saturday, June 10. Forty-seven-year-old Michelle Virgo who is a dual citizen in Jamaica and the United States (US) was charged with possession of cocaine, dealing in cocaine, attempting to export cocaine, and…
LAGOS JUNE 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A woman thought to be dead by her relatives made a miraculous return to the land of the living at her own wake. Relatives of Bella Montoya, 76, were paying their respects to her at her wake on June 9 hours after she was pronounced dead by hospital staff at Martin Icaza…
LAGOS JUNE 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Six Swiss Police officers have reportedly appeared in court in connection with the death of a Nigerian man who suffered a fatal heart attack while being restrained during an arrest. The officers were charged with “homicide through negligence” in connection with the death of 39-year-old Mike Ben Peter, a Nigerian in Lausanne,…
LAGOS JUNE 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Thousands of dead fish were found laying on beaches in Quintana Beach County Park early Friday, leaving beachgoers alarmed and wondering what happened. Within a few hours, Texas Parks and Wildlife officials determined low dissolved oxygen caused the massive number of fish deaths. Most of the fish that washed ashore were Gulf…
LAGOS JUNE 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Security around the United States Embassy in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, has been beefed up following the shooting of an official of the embassy, last Thursday. Also, other embassies and foreign missions have upped their security level, while urging their citizens and officials to take their security more seriously. The staff, whose identity…
LAGOS JUNE 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An American musician who has lived in Russia for more than a decade has been arrested on suspicion of drug trafficking, Russian news media reported Saturday. The reports said Michael Travis Leake is suspected of selling mephedrone, whose effects are similar to those of cocaine and MDMA. A Moscow court ordered him…
LAGOS JUNE 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Four Colombian children who were missing for six weeks alone in the Amazon jungle after a plane crash have been found alive – and malnourished but otherwise healthy. The siblings, Lesly, 13, Soleiny, nine, Tien Noriel, four, and baby Cristin who had his first birthday while lost in the jungle, had been…