LAGOS DECEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At least nine people died and eight others were missing in South Africa after a flash flood swept away members of a church congregation along the Jukskei River in Johannesburg, rescue officials said Sunday. A group of 33 worshippers had joined church rituals on the river banks when the flooding struck on…
LAGOS DECEMBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Amnesty International calls on the Mouvement du 23 Mars (M23) armed group to cease targeting civilians following the unlawful killing of dozens of civilians in towns in the east of the country in recent days in indiscriminate attacks and, in some cases, summary killings. Those killed during attacks in and around the…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The three men were picked up Monday by Spain’s Maritime Rescue Services from the rudder of the Alithini II ship. After displaying acute symptoms of disorientation, dehydration and hypothermia, they were all taken to a hospital on the island of Gran Canaria. Two of the stowaways have been helped and put back…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-It was confusion aboard a Southwest Airline plane when a crazed woman attempted to open the door mid-air. Only God can save Agbegninou now that she tried her best to obey her god. Elom whose last name is Benin Republic, then started whacking her head on the plane floor, claiming “Jesus told…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian singer, Yemi Alade, was robbed in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire where she went to perform over the weekend. Alade took to her Instagram page on to lament how thieves got into her hotel room, ransacked her belongings and stole all the money they could find. She wrote: “A few minutes after I…
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…