LAGOS JANUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Police in northern Niger have seized more than 200 kg of cocaine worth around $8.7 million that was being transported in the local mayor’s official truck, two police sources said on Monday. The mayor and his driver, who were in the vehicle at the time, were arrested with 199 bricks of cocaine…
LAGOS JANUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS) Multiple members of the Saudi hit squad that brutally murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi in October 2018 are living in luxury villas in a government-run Saudi security compound, according to The Guardian. According to the report published Thursday, at least three of the killers are living and working in villas operated by…
LAGOS JANUARY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries (MFM), a leading prayer and deliverance church in Nigeria with branches in all continents of the world, has recovered it’s Maryland, USA branch stolen from it by the branch pastor, Lawrence Adetunji, his wife, Ronke, and 11 others, this newspaper has gathered. Also recovered are other…
LAGOS JANUARY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-More than 2.4 million COVID-19 cases have been recorded in the US in the past week – the most since the pandemic began, according to new data. The new statistic beats out the previous record of just over the 2 million cases recorded almost exactly a year ago for the seven days between…
LAGOS JANUARY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The late anti-apartheid campaigner Archbishop Desmond Tutu is to be aquamated – a process using water that is described as an environmentally friendly alternative to cremation. It was “what he aspired to as an eco-warrior,” said Very Rev Michael Weeder. Thousands of South Africans have been paying their last respects at St…
LAGOS DECEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Ghanaian Police Force have warned religious leaders against negative utterances during New Year messages or they risk a jail term of seven years. “As the year 2021 draws to a close, the Ghana Police Service wishes to draw the attention of Ghanaians, especially religious groups, to the fact that whereas we…
LAGOS DECEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As South Africa celebrated the life of anti-apartheid hero Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who died on Sunday, one of his daughters recalled the day he saved a young man from being burned alive by an angry mob as one of her proudest memories. In 1985, the country was in a state of emergency…
LAGOS DECEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Pennsylvania father and two of his sons were killed in a Christmas morning fire that was believed to have been started by lights on the family’s Christmas tree. Eric King, 41, and children Liam, 11, and Patrick, 8, died when the fast-moving blaze tore through their Quakertown home around 1:20 a.m.,…