LAGOS DECEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Lambeth Police has confirmed that many people were seriously injured and some have been hospitalised after a large crowd tried to get into a concert in London last night without tickets to watch Nigerian singer Asake perform. Police were called to the Brixton O2 Academy at 9.35 pm on Thursday following reports…
LAGOS DECEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A landslide Friday at a tourist campground in Malaysia left 16 people dead and authorities said 17 others were feared buried at the site on an organic farm outside the capital of Kuala Lumpur. An estimated 94 Malaysians were believed to have been at the campsite in Batang Kali in central Selangor…
LAGOS DECEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Charity Commission has granted consent for the University of Cambridge to return 116 artefacts to Nigeria. The objects, known as the Benin Bronzes, were taken by British armed forces during the sacking of Benin City in 1897, the university said. The legal ownership of the items will be transferred to the…
LAGOS DECEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-LAGOS DECEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s ambassador to Spain, Demola Seriki, is dead. The Lagos politician was said to have died in Madrid, Spain. He was aged 63. His death was announced in a notice signed by his children on Thursday. The notice said that he “It is with heavy hearts and profound gratitude…
LAGOS DECEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Parents who broke record when they welcomed nine babies at once (nonuplets) have finally returned home after 19 months in an intensive care clinic. Mother Halima Cissé, 27, and her husband Abdelkader Arby, 36, from Mali, spent almost two years at the specialist Ain Borja clinic in Casablanca, Morocco, following the birth of their…
LAGOS DECEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria has been listed among African countries whose citizens can now apply for qualified teacher status through the Teaching Regulation Agency in the United Kingdom, from February 2023. Other countries to benefit include Ghana, Hong Kong, India, Jamaica, Singapore, South Africa, Ukraine and Zimbabwe. A publication early December on the UK Government’s…
LAGOS DECEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two police officers in coastal Mississippi were shot and killed early Wednesday by a woman who they had talked to for nearly 30 minutes in a motel parking lot, authorities said. The woman also died. Amy Anderson, 43, was sitting in a parked SUV with a female child when the officers were…
LAGOS DECEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Several schools across the United Kingdom have been forced to shut down for a second consecutive day following a snow and ice chaos. Thousands of classrooms were reportedly closed Monday as an Arctic freeze engulfed Britain, according to a reports, Pupils were set to work remotely owing to the closure. Hundreds of…