LAGOS JUNE 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Investigators have arrested a church member, Rashid Ali Bynum, 28, of Portsmouth who was alleged to have gunned down a Sayreville Councilwoman and Nigerian pastor, Eunice Dwumfour, 30, in her SUV outside her home in February in New Jersey. New Jersey prosecutors said investigators traced his travels from his cellphone and vehicle…
LAGOS MAY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A Canadian couple was killed at their home in Ontario during a dispute with their landlord Saturday afternoon, authorities said. The shooting suspect was also killed. Hamilton Police are investigating the double homicide in the city’s Stoney Creek neighborhood. Officers arrived then at the residence around 5:40 p.m. where the couple, identified…
LAGOS MAY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Extremist fighters killed eight people including soldiers in multiple attacks in northern Cameroon on Tuesday, a regional official said. Fighters with Boko Haram killed three customs officers, three soldiers and two civilians in separate attacks in the towns of Mora and Zigage on the border with Nigeria, said Midjiyawa Bakari, governor of…
LAGOS MAY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A drugs baron who imported up to £1bn of cocaine to the UK died seven years into his 25-year sentence. Johnny Gerrard Kock, 75, was found dead in his cell at HMP Berwyn in Wales on August 16, 2021. Kock was in prison serving a 25-year sentence after he used a fake…
LAGOS MAY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-India has become the most populated country in the world with an estimated population of over 1.425 billion people. New figures from the United Nations’ Population Division have estimated India’s number of residents to be 1,425,775,850. That means the nation now officially holds the record for highest population, country. India has surpassed…
LAGOS MAY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nearly five years after he was arrested at a South African airport, Mozambique’s former finance minister has lost a last-ditch court appeal and faces extradition to the United States over a $2 billion corruption scandal related to loans to Mozambican state-owned companies. U.S. prosecutors allege that Manuel Chang, Mozambique’s finance minister from…
LAGOS MAY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Commonwealth Secretary-General, The Rt Hon Patricia Scotland KC, confirmed today that Vice President Osinbajo has accepted her request to chair the Commonwealth Observer Group (COG). The Secretary-General constituted the observer group upon invitation from the Electoral Commission for Sierra Leone. Prof Osinbajo is a Professor of Law and one of…
LAGOS MAY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In a shocking and unprecedented incident, a Nigerian man residing in the United Kingdom has been arrested for allegedly impregnating his wife, his wife’s mother, and his wife’s sister all at the same time. The arrest has sent shockwaves through the community and sparked widespread debate. The man, whose identity has been…
