LAGOS JUNE 7TH (NEWSRAGERS)-Several thousand migrants, many from Venezuela, set off from southern Mexico early Monday aiming to reach the United States, timing their journey to coincide with the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles this week. Migration activists said the group could be one of the region’s largest migrant caravans in recent years….
LAGOS JUNE 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian man has been killed in the United State of America by a drunk driver just six weeks after arriving in the state. Tributes from family and friends have poured in for the man identified as Patrick Ohanta, 45, who was said to have been hit and killed by a car…
LAGOS JUNE 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A 41-year-old Nigerian, Obinna Igbokwe, on Wednesday night in Texas, United States, shot his wife, Tangela Igbokwe, killed her mother and fled to North Texas with their three-month-old son, Mansa, before finally killing himself. Igbokwe lived in Spring, Montgomery County of Dallas, Texas. According to the U.S. police, Obinna Igbokwe and his…
LAGOS MAY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Over 500 civilians died in attacks carried out by armed forces and Islamist groups in Mali from January to March this year, the United Nations said in a report on Monday that detailed a rapid unravelling of an already desperate security situation. The killings represented a 324% rise over the previous quarter…
LAGOS MAY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Fighting between informal gold miners in a remote part of northern Chad has left around 100 people dead and 40 injured, the government says. What began as a “mundane dispute between two individuals… degenerated”, Defence Minister Daoud Yaya Brahim told the AFP news agency. The mountainous Kouri Bougoudi district near the Libyan…
LAGOS MAY 31st (NEWSRANGERS)-Militants of Ambazonia, a separatist group in South West Cameroon, have killed at least 20 people in a community in Boki Local Government Area of Cross River State. Chief Cletus Obun, a former member of Cross River House of Assembly and an aspirant of House of Reps for Boki/Ikom federal constituency, confirmed…
LAGOS MAY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Homicide detectives attached to the Victoria Island Police Station, have launched investigations into the mysterious death of a 75-year-old American identified as Doris Samuel, who died moments after coming to Nigeria to join her 36-year-old husband, Okelue Kingsley. It was gathered that the deceased came to Nigeria to meet Kingsley so that…
LAGOS MAY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Customs officers in Burkina Faso seized a record haul of around 115 kilograms of cocaine worth more than $11.5 million last week, the directorate general of customs said in a statement on Wednesday. The drugs were intercepted on Thursday along the main road linking the southwestern city of Bobo to the capital…