LAGOS NOVEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)- – Three migrants rescued in Spain’s Canary Islands, after apparently enduring an 11-day journey from Nigeria crouched on the rudder of a fuel tanker, should now be returned home under stowaway laws, a police spokesman told Reuters on Tuesday. In a photograph distributed on Twitter by the Spanish coast guard on…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Flight attendant, Yasser Saleh, died of a heart attack while working on a flight from Bahrain to Paris Charles de Gaulle. Dead On Arrival The Gulf Air flight attendant was confirmed dead on arrival at the hospital on Tuesday morning. Saleh was part of the cabin crew on flight GF 19 which…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Tiantian Kullander, the influential young founder of cryptocurrency company Amber Group, died suddenly in his sleep on Nov. 23, the company confirmed. The group had just received a $3 billion valuation earlier this year, and was in the process of raising another $100 million—a meteoric success in which he played an integral…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Protesters pushed to the brink by China’s strict COVID measures in Shanghai called for the removal of the country’s all-powerful leader and clashed with police Sunday as crowds took to the streets in several cities in an astounding challenge to the government. Police forcibly cleared the demonstrators in China’s financial capital who called…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)Some 2,500 naked volunteers have posed in the early morning light on Sydney’s Bondi Beach for an artwork designed to raise awareness of skin cancer. The installation is American photographer Spencer Tunick’s latest project, aimed at encouraging Australians to get regular skin checks. Legislation was changed to allow public nudity on the…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The military has foiled a coup attempt in Sao Tome and Principe, the prime minister of the island nation off the western coast of Africa said in a video message. Four men, including the former president of the outgoing National Assembly Delfim Neves, tried to attack army headquarters overnight, Prime Minister Patrice…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Malawi has arrested its Vice President Saulos Chilima and charged him with graft over a bribery scandal involving a British-Malawian businessman, the country’s anti-corruption watchdog said. The president’s deputy — who has been stripped of his powers — has been charged with several counts of corruption and taking bribes to influence government…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An SK Shipping tanker has been confirmed as the victim of a hijacking for the second time this year in the Gulf of Guinea. Piracy reporting body Maritime Domain Awareness for Trade Gulf of Guinea (MDAT GoG) had reportedly said communication had been lost with the 5,700-dwt B Ocean (built 2010) on…