LAGOS OCTOBER 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-H.E. John Dramani Mahama, former President of the Republic of Ghana is expected to visit Nigeria to deliver the Seventh Anniversary Lecture of Realnews Magazine on Tuesday, November 19, at the Sheraton Hotel, Lagos, Nigeria “Beyond Politics: An Economic Narrative for West Africa” is the main topic of the Lecture with “The…
LAGOS OCTOBER 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Wednesday at the State House Banquet Hall, Abuja, proposed a toast for the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The vice president’s toast was proposed at a dinner organised in honour of the Deputy Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Prof….
LAGOS OCTOBER 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-In a major seizure, police in Goa, western India on Tuesday arrested a Nigerian Ifeanyi Pascal Obi, a.k.a Alex and confiscated drugs worth about Rs 3 crore(about $400,000) from him, local media reported on Wednesday. Tuesday’s haul was a massive one considering that the value of the seized drugs was the same…
LAGOS OCTOBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Thirty angry strippers marched to a police station in Thailand’s Pattaya on Tueday to complain that they had not been paid for the last two weeks. The women from the Walking Street strip of clubs in Thailand’s ‘Sin City’ of Pattaya – dubbed the sex capital of the world – were furious…
LAGOS OCTOBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS-Ziniaré (Burkina Faso) (AFP) – Five years after the people of Burkina Faso rose up against Blaise Compaore, chasing him out of the nation he ruled with an iron fist for 27 years, dire living conditions are prompting nostalgia for the old days. “Before, there were projects, work, businesses,” said Maurice Iboudo,…
LAGOS OCTOBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS) — Police in the South African city of Cape Town used water cannons Wednesday while dispersing and arresting hundreds of foreigners, including children, who have camped for weeks outside the U.N. refugee agency’s office. Some of the refugees and asylum-seekers told local media they are seeking to be relocated outside the…
LAGOS OCTOBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian lady Dibbie Onwu has been stabbed to death at Wood’s Homes in Southwest Calgary, Canada. The suspect whose identity was not revealed as at press time has been arrested and taken into Police custody. Onwu, a health worker and a native Irete in Imo State was stabbed to death at…
LAGOS OCTOBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State last seen alive in a video in April, was targeted in a strike by U.S. Special Operations Forces in Syria on Saturday, according to three U.S. officials. The ISIS leader is believed to be dead, those officials told ABC News. One official told…