LAGOS SEPTEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Canadian battle rapper Pat Stay was fatally stabbed in Nova Scotia, Canada. He was 36. Local police said the incident happened in downtown Halifax early Sunday. Stay was found with stab wounds and was taken to a hospital where he later died. His death has been ruled a homicide and is being…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Kenya’s Supreme Court has ruled that William Ruto was properly elected president, dismissing several petitions seeking to annul the result of the 9 August election. His rival, Raila Odinga, and others had alleged there had been massive fraud. But in a scathing ruling, the judges said some of the petitioners had falsified…
LAGOS AUGUST 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War and was the last leader of the Soviet Union, has died at the age of 91, Russian news agencies reported, citing medical sources. “Gorbachev died this evening after a serious and long illness,” the Central Clinical Hospital in Moscow said late on Tuesday, as quoted…
LAGOS AUGUST 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Madagascar police killed 19 people and injured 21 others when they opened fire on Monday on a crowd trying to storm a police station to seek revenge against suspected criminals, police said on Tuesday. The shooting took place in the town of Ikongo, about 330 km (205 miles) southeast of the capital…
LAGOS AUGUST 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Addressing a packed audience at the prestigious Beverly Hilton Los Angeles flag off of his US speaking tour, Gov Peter Obi vowed to increase electricity generation in Nigeria or quit office after his first term as president. The Labor Party’s presidential candidate who had just flown in from Toronto, Canada described countries…
LAGOS AUGUST 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A Japanese man believed to be the ringleader of a notorious “romance scam” that swindled dozens of victims out of nearly 400 million yen (approximately $2.9 million) in total has been detained in Ghana. The Ghana Police Service confirmed in a tweet on Aug. 2 that they have arrested Hikaru Morikawa, 58,…
LAGOS AUGUST 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi has asked the electorate not to consider any of the presidential candidates speaking through proxies. Speaking to Nigerians that came to welcome him in Germany yesterday, Mr Obi said that every candidate must come and tell Nigerians his agenda to make Nigeria work….
LAGOS AUGUST 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The U.S. government said on Thursday it will suspend 26 China-bound flights from the United States by four Chinese carriers in response to the Chinese government’s decision to suspend some U.S. carrier flights over COVID-19 cases. The decision will affect flights by Xiamen, Air China, China Southern Airlines and China Eastern Airlines…
