LAGOS JUNE 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A passenger forced open the emergency exit door of a plane and jumped out while it was taxiing away from the gate area at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) on Friday night, ABC 7 reported. United Express Flight 5365, operated by SkyWest, was preparing to depart LAX for Salt Lake City, Utah,…
LAGOS JUNE 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Israeli Ministry of Defense (MoD) and Polaris Solutions, an Israel-based survivability technology company, have unveiled a new camouflage technology that makes soldiers virtually “invisible,” The Jerusalem Post reported. The Kit 300 is made of thermal visual concealment material that combines metals, microfibres, and polymers to reduce the detectability of soldiers. The…
LAGOS JUNE 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A man who died on the operating table for 20 minutes has vividly described how we was led on an incredible supernatural journey before his soul was apparently returned to his body.Scott Drummond was 28 when he dislocated his thumb in a nasty skiing accident. But a routine operation to get his…
LAGOS JUNE 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer who murdered George Floyd, has been sentenced to 22 years and six months for second-degree murder, closing one chapter of a case that thrust the issue of race and American policing back into the global spotlight. The 45-year-old appeared in court on Friday, dressed in…
LAGOS JUNE 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At least one person was killed, 10 injured and a staggering 99 people are still missing in the aftermath of a 12-story apartment building that collapsed and “pancaked” early Thursday near Miami, prompting a massive search-and-rescue effort, officials said. The ocean-facing portion of the 136-unit Champlain Towers South Condo on Collins Avenue…
LAGOS JUNE 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The federal government has told the ECOWAS court that it lacked the jurisdiction to criminalise the suspension of Twitter in Nigeria as the suspension of the operations of Twitter in Nigeria is not a right recognised under any treaty enforceable by the ECOWAS court. The Federal government stated this in a preliminary…
LAGOS JUNE 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-John McAfee, the creator of the McAfee antivirus software, has been found dead in his cell in a jail near Barcelona, a government official told The Associated Press on Wednesday. Hours earlier, a Spanish court issued a preliminary ruling in favor of the 75-year-old tycoon’s extradition to the United States to face…
LAGOS JUNE 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian, Mark Okuo and his Kenyan accomplice, Florence Musau, have been accused of alleged conspiracy in internet scam, leading to over $4 million. The 41-year-old Okuo and 36-year-old Musau were accused of depositing $1.3million into various bank accounts from their fraudulent proceeds since 2018, DailyMail reported. About $195,000 was obtained through…
