LAGOS JUNE 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Award-winning Somali referee Omar Artan has been dropped from officiating at the World Cup after being barred from entering the United States, world football’s governing body FIFA said on Monday. A FIFA spokesperson confirmed in a statement that Artan, who was refused entry to the US after arriving at Miami International…
LAGOS JUNE 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Rescuers searched ruined buildings in the southern Philippines on Tuesday to ensure no one was still trapped a day after one of the strongest earthquakes to hit the country in a half-century killed at least 37 people and displaced more than 20,000. Only four people were considered missing on official records in…
LAGOS JUNE 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-More than a million people lined the streets of Madrid on Sunday as Pope Leo XIV celebrated an open-air Mass in the Spanish capital, organisers said. He greeted the crowds as he made his way through the city in his popemobile on the second day of his official visit to the…
LAGOS JUNE 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A New Jersey man has been sentenced to more than four years in prison and ordered to pay more than $1 million in restitution after pleading guilty to scamming several victims out of hundreds of thousands of dollars — including a man who sent him more than $400,000, believing the money…
LAGOS JUNE 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An offshore magnitude 7.8 earthquake rocked the southern Philippines Monday, leaving at least 12 people dead, injuring more than 200 others mostly in damaged buildings and sparking a 1-meter (3-foot) tsunami along nearby coasts, officials said. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said the threat of a tsunami had largely passed about five…
LAGOS JUNE 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria is planning to repatriate more than 1,000 of its nationals from South Africa as anti-immigrant tensions rise in the country, long a destination for documented and undocumented African workers. The move by Abuja comes after Ghana recently repatriated hundreds of its citizens from South Africa in response to a wave of…
LAGOS JUNE 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At least 49 people died of thirst after a truck broke down and they were stranded for days in the Sahara Desert in northern Niger, authorities said. The victims, all Nigeriens, were returning home from a religious festival in Mali when the truck stopped running more than 80 kilometers (49 miles)…
LAGOS JUNE 4TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-Shashe Asemare handles the large steering wheel with ease, navigating the mint-green city bus through the notoriously congested streets of Addis Ababa. Ever since the Ethiopian capital introduced 100 new electric buses to its fleet in 2025, she’s noticed the benefits. “These electric buses are very different from the gasoline ones,”…