LAGOS JANUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Illinois saw record recreational cannabis sales of $1.55 billion in 2022, a jump of 12% from the previous year — despite delays in opening new stores and some signs the market had reached a plateau. Monthly sales had flattened out recently around $130 million until the annual holiday increase saw a record…
LAGOS JANUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Military coups were a regular occurrence in Africa in the decades after independence and there is concern they are starting to become more frequent. There were two takeovers in Burkina Faso in 2022 as well as failed coup attempts in Guinea Bissau, The Gambia and the island nation of Sao Tome and…
LAGOS JANUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The bodies of four people killed in a late December helicopter crash in the Gulf of Mexico have been recovered, company officials confirmed Tuesday. The helicopter crashed at around 8:40 a.m. Dec. 29 while carrying a pilot and three oil platform workers, according to the U.S. Coast Guard’s 8th District. The aircraft…
LAGOS JANAURY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A two-year ban on some foreigners buying homes in Canada has come into effect. The ban aims to help ease one of the most unaffordable housing markets in the world. As of this summer, the average home price in Canada is C$777,200 ($568,000; £473,700) – more than 11 times the median household…
LAGOS JANUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)- At least seven people have been killed in a shoot-out in Mexico as officials searched for 30 inmates who staged a bloody prison break on Sunday. Gunmen opened fire on state investigators who were hunting the escapees, killing at least two of them. Five gunmen also died in the shoot-out, but…
LAGOS JANUARY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Bells rang out over Jerusalem and the Palestinian territories and in cities the world over as leaders from Japan to Russia praised the late Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, who died early Saturday at age 95. Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York, issued a statement Saturday morning: “The human family grieves the…
LAGOS DECEMBER 31ST (NEWRANGERS)-Benedict XVI, the former pope who spent years in the Vatican upholding conservative Catholic teaching but who upended centuries of tradition by resigning as pontiff, died Saturday, the Vatican announced. He was 95. The German-born Benedict lived out his final years in a converted monastery at the Vatican, giving rise to the…
LAGOS DECEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A massive fire that lasted more than 12 hours in a Cambodian hotel casino killed at least 16 people and injured about 50, while other victims were apparently not yet accounted for Thursday, as neighboring Thailand sent firetrucks to help fight the blaze in a bustling border town. Videos posted on social…