LAGOS OCTOBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Indonesia has banned a planned concert by US gospel singer Israel Houghton and his group Israel & New Breed, citing controversy over Houghton’s perceived support for Israel. The concert, part of Houghton’s “Til The Whole World Knows Tour 2026,” was scheduled for October 24 in Jakarta. Coordinating Minister for Law, Human Rights,…
LAGOS OCTOBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Spanish police, with help from the military, completed the clearance of a migrant camp in Ceuta on Monday. The move came just over a week before the Spanish King and Queen’s planned visit to Spain’s North African exclave. All the approximately 3,000 migrants who had been living in makeshift shelters on…
LAGOS OCTOBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 42-year-old Texas woman, Colleen Nichole Lemmon, has been charged with capital murder after authorities said she shot her two sons inside their home before apparently injuring herself. Colleen Lemmon was arrested on two counts of capital murder following the deaths of 21-year-old Christopher Scott Pitre and his 15-year-old brother in Waxahachie,…
LAGOS OCTOBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ezekiel Dachomo, a Reverend and regional leader of the Church of Christ in Nations (COCIN) in Barkin Ladi Local Government Area of Plateau State, has travelled to Israel as part of efforts to draw international attention to killings and insecurity in Plateau and other parts of Nigeria. Mr Dachomo announced his arrival…
LAGOS OCTOBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A United States lawmaker, Riley Moore, has welcomed the reported arrest of Mahmoud Adam, whom he described as a radical Islamic Fulani terrorist leader allegedly responsible for the killing of Christians in Nigeria. Moore, a Republican member of the US House of Representatives, made the comment in a post on X on…
LAGOS OCTOBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says investigations suggest the man who stabbed his fellow pilot and tried to take over a flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv had undergone “Islamist radical indoctrination”. The Flydubai plane plunged more than 17,000ft (5,200m) two hours into its journey on Wednesday, before passengers and crew overpowered…
LAGOS OCTOBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A mosque in London is under investigation by the charities watchdog after a preacher encouraged husbands to beat their wives. Yasin Munye, an Islamic scholar at Hackney Islamic Community Centre, urged men to “discipline” their wives if they disobeyed them, footage posted on the mosque’s YouTube channel showed. The National Secular Society…
LAGOS OCTOBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-More Nigerians are dying in South Africa due to attacks associated with the growing xenophobic violence in the country. The Nigerian Ambassador to South Africa, Femi Fani-Kayode, disclosed on Monday night the deaths of three other Nigerians murdered in separate incidents. Mr Fani-Kayode said the three were all killed in September on…
