LAGOS JANUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Four Nigerian stowaways arrested in the UK in 2018 December have been jailed for a total of seven years. While on the ship, they hurled faeces at elite SBS sailors and vowed to infect them with HIV during a tense stand-off in the Thames Estuary. The stowaways also threatened to kill crew…
LAGOS JANUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Suspected Boko Haram militants have killed at least 50 people on an island on Lake Chad, bordering Cameroon and Chad, a local official told the BBC. The militants, disguised as traders, attacked fishermen, local mayor Ali Ramat said, quoting a survivor. The attack happened on 22 December, 2019, but news from the…
LAGOS DECEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Iran’s defence minister Amir Hatami has vowed that the gulf state will avenge the death of Major General Qassem Soleimani who was killed at Baghdad airport by the US Iran has vowed ‘crushing revenge’ on the US for the airstrike ‘assassination’ of Major General Qassem Soleimani. Defence minister Amir Hatami, who is…
LAGOS JANUARY 2ND (NEWSRANGRS)-TheNigeria High Commission has been forcefully evicted from its diplomatic property in Accra. The property located at No.10 Barnes Road, Accra, has been reallocated to Amaco Microfinance since 26 August, 2019 by Ghana’s Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources with the consent of Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration. According to…
LAGOS JANUARY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)- At least 16 inmates were killed in a central Mexico prison and five others wounded after a bloody two-and-a-half hour riot. Four guns – believed to have been smuggled in during prison visits on Tuesday, where found at the scene of the violent melee at the Cienguillas state prison in the…
LAGOS DECEMBER 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Meet 29-year-old Nigerian, Beroro Efekoro, who has just been elected as an Albany County legislator in the state of New York. Beroro Efekoro achieved this feat 11 years after he relocated from Nigeria to the popular American state with his father and siblings. He moved to Albany to pursue a degree in…
LAGOS DECEMBER 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A former University of Texas at San Antonio football player has been arrested and charged in the fatal stabbing of his sister at a home north of Austin. The Travis County sheriff´s office says 25-year-old Michael Egwuagu who is originally from Nigeria was charged with murder in the Friday killing of his…
LAGOS DECEMBER 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The U.S. ambassador to Iraq and other staff were evacuated from their embassy in Baghdad for their safety on Tuesday, Iraqi officials said, as thousands of protesters and militia fighters outside the gate denounced U.S. air strikes in Iraq. On Sunday, U.S. planes had attacked bases belonging to an Iranian-backed militia, a…