LAGOS FEBRUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 15 Nigerian Muslim pilgrims on their way to Senegal were killed when gunmen in Burkina Faso attacked the buses transporting them, Nigeria’s presidency said on Monday. “President Muhammadu Buhari has received the tragic news of the murder,” the State House said in a statement without providing a number of…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-More than 1,500 people have been confirmed dead after a massive 7.8-magnitude earthquake rocked southeast Turkey and Syria early Monday, leveling several buildings as people slept in their beds. The devastating toll has continued to rise as rescuers frantically search for survivors trapped under the rubble. Thousands more people in both countries were…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Vietnamese authorities have over the past week seized more than 600 kilograms of ivory smuggled from Africa, the government said on Monday. Trade in ivory is illegal in Vietnam but wildlife trafficking remains widespread. Other items often found smuggled into the country include pangolin scales, rhino horns and tiger carcasses. Customs authorities…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The body of Burkina Faso’s revered revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara is to be buried alongside 12 comrades at the spot where in 1987 they were assassinated, the country’s ruling junta said on Friday. The ceremony will take place “in February” at the site of a memorial that already marks the location, the…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-An Assistant Inspector-General of Police and Head of the National Central Bureau, INTERPOL Nigeria, Garba Umar, on Thursday, disclosed why the Federal Government has failed to extradite a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, over corruption allegations and trial. Umar, while appearing before the House of Representatives Ad Hoc Committee to…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A suspected thief was caught stealing iron rods at a community in Ghana and the residents decided to compel him to do community service. It was gathered that the suspect is notorious for theft and he had operated multiple times without being caught but luck ran out on him during the most…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-At least 28 people, including soldiers and civilians, have been killed in two attacks by armed assailants in Burkina Faso, a regional governor and the army said in separate statements. The army said on Monday that a combat unit in Falagountou, in the north of the country near its border with Niger,…
LAGOS JANUARY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Police in Peel Region allege two suspects fraudulently issued and sold 250 airline tickets valued in excess of $500,000. According to investigators, between June and December of 2021, the suspects claimed they were working for travel agencies based out of the United Kingdom and accessed a secure online booking portal of a…