LAGOS FEBRUARY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 66-year-old woman was arrested near the White House over the weekend after police found a loaded handgun and a handwritten letter for Joe Biden inside her car, TMZ reports. The woman reportedly drove up to a security checkpoint in downtown Washington D.C. Saturday night with a man sitting in the passenger…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Joe Ligon was just 15 when he joined a pack of drunk teenagers on a robbery and assault spree that left two people dead and six others stabbed. Illiterate and poor, Ligon pled guilty to two counts of first-degree murder, though he long claimed he didn’t take part in the murders. He…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Fifteen Turkish sailors kidnapped by pirates last month in the Gulf of Guinea arrived back in Turkey on Sunday and the ship’s captain described how they faced death threats and were held in a forest during their three-week ordeal. The sailors hugged relatives as they arrived before dawn at Istanbul Airport, where…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Donald Trump thanked Senate Republicans – most of them – for his impeachment acquittal on Saturday, and proclaimed that the political movement he began with his 2016 election has “only just begun.” “We have so much work ahead of us, and soon we will emerge with a vision for a bright, radiant, and limitless…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-China’s broadcasting regulator has banned the BBC World Service from airing there, according to a report in Chinese state media. The news follows a move by Britain’s communications regulator last week to strip the state-run China global television network of its broadcast license in the U.K. According to the state news agency…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A special tribunal in Bangladesh’s capital on Wednesday sentenced to death eight Islamic militants for the 2015 killing of a publisher of books on secularism and atheism. Anti-Terrorism Special Tribunal Judge Majibur Rahman announced the verdicts in a packed courtroom in the presence of six defendants. Another two, including sacked military official…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria is set to repatriate 9, 800 refugees from Cameroon to Nigeria as representatives have arrived in Marwa, in Cameroon to complete the move. The 9,800 refugees are those in the first phase of the repatriation from Cameroon from the 46,000 Nigerians taking refuge in Minawao camp in the country. According to…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Soccer star Jérôme Boateng’s model ex-girlfriend Kasia Lenhardt has passed away at the age of 25. According to Bild, who cited the Berlin police, the former contestant of Germany’s Next Top Model was found dead in a home on Tuesday, Feb. 9. “Yesterday at around 8.30 p.m., there was a police operation…
