LAGOS FEBRUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A Philippine police helicopter crashed Monday as it was flying to pick up the country’s police chief on a resort island, killing a crew member and injuring the two pilots, officials said. The Airbus H125 helicopter went missing after taking off from Manila and was found two hours later to have crashed…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Mali’s lawmakers on Monday approved a plan allowing the military junta to rule for up to five years, AFP journalists said, despite regional sanctions imposed on the country over delayed elections. The army-dominated legislature also decided that the country’s interim president cannot stand for a future democratic election, as part of the…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Kenya High Commissioner to Nigeria, Ambassador Wilfred Gisuka Machage is dead. The Ambassador, it was gathered, was ill and was rushed to an undisclosed hospital in Abuja. The nature of his ailment could not be ascertained at the time of filing this report. But a source close to the Ambassador said…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Three people were injured when a helicopter crashed into the Atlantic ocean off a Miami Beach coast, the fire department said. The crash occurred around 1:10 p.m., Miami Beach Police said in a tweet. A video released by police showed the aircraft, a Robinson R44 helicopter, dive into the water dangerously close…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An Aeroplane manufacturing company identified as AIR EUROPE has manufactured a new Aeroplane with a swimming pool, a shopping mall and a suit room. Announcing the development on Tuesday, the company made known on its official twitter handle that, the new Aeroplane with such innovation and high level of Block chain technology…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Panama-flagged car carrier Felicity Ace caught fire in the Atlantic Ocean while transporting an undisclosed number of vehicles, including Porsche and Volkswagen models. The ship’s 22 crewmembers were rescued by the Portuguese Navy, but the fate of the cars is unknown. Felicity Ace was sailing from Emden, Germany, to Davisville in Rhode…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Emmanuel Macron says France will withdraw its troops from Mali but maintain a military presence in neighboring West African nations. Announcing the move during a Thursday news conference in Paris, Macron said, “We cannot remain militarily involved” alongside Malian transitional authorities with whom “we don’t share the strategy and goals.” France…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 16TH(NEWSRANGERS)-A girl who went missing more than two years ago at the age of 4 was found alive by police on Monday, hidden underneath a staircase in a New York home. Paislee Shultis, now 6, was found at a residence in Saugerties, about 45 miles south of Albany, on Monday night after authorities…