LAGOS SEPTEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At least 50 Sudanese refugees lost their lives when a boat bound for Greece caught fire and went under off the coast of Libya, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) has confirmed. According to the UN migration agency, the vessel sank about 60 kilometers (37 miles) from the eastern city of Tobruk….
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Lagos lawyer and human right activist, Chief (Bar.) Malcolm Emokiniovo Omirhobo has appealed to the United Nations to urgently move beyond issuing of press statements and take immediate and concrete action towards protection of civilians in Gaza, where relentless bombardment is destroying entire neighborhoods, toppling residential towers and annihilating families. Omirhobo…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An Australian pilot has been killed after his plane carrying almost 200kg of cocaine wrapped in fake SpaceX packaging crashed into a sugarcane field in Brazil, local media reported. Authorities said the pilot was found dead outside the aircraft after it crashed in Coruripe, an area on Brazil’s tropical coastline, according to…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Police on Tuesday were investigating the death of a Black college student found hanging from a tree on the campus of Delta State University in Mississippi, stirring online rumors that evoked the state’s history of Jim Crow-era racist violence even as authorities said there was no initial evidence of a crime. The…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 16-year-old is in custody after officials said she is accused of shooting her mother in Galveston, Texas on Thursday evening. The Galveston Police Department said officers responded to a home in the 5100 block of Avenue Q just before 8 p.m. after a report that someone had been shot several times….
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Canada has denied 1,596 asylum claims filed by Nigerians so far in 2025, fresh data from the Immigration and Refugee Board show. Sunday PUNCH reports that the figures, updated to August 21, indicate that Nigerian nationals filed 3,548 claims so far this year, of which 2,292 were accepted. This puts the acceptance…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Pope Leo XIV is sounding the alarm over the growing wealth inequality between CEOs and workers—and he’s singling out Elon Musk’s path to trillionaire status. In his first formal interview since being named pontiff, Pope Leo says soaring executive paychecks may be putting the world in “big trouble.” This comes as a…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Donald Trump said the “time for being soft” on illegal immigration is over after the gruesome death of Chandra Nagamallaiah, a motel manager in Dallas who police said was beheaded and killed by an employee in front of his wife and son. Trump highlighted the case in a Sept. 14 post…