LAGOS OCTOBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Four homeless men were found beaten to death in Manhattan early Saturday morning in what police are calling a random attack. A fifth man is in critical condition. All five victims were men who suffered trauma to the head, police said. They appeared to have been sleeping when the attack happened just…
LAGOS OCTOBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 17-year-old twisted teenager has killed a 91-year-old World War veteran by beating, dousing him with gasoline, and setting him on fire. The 91-year-old, Paul Monchnik had been living in Detroit and was a friendly and active member of the Detroit community. Paul Monchnik became a USA immigrant at the age of…
LAGOS OCTOBER 6H (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari said on Friday that a wave of deadly violence against Nigerians and other foreign nationals in South Africa last month was an embarrassment to the continent. In September, rioting and attacks on foreigners led to at least 10 deaths, dozens of injuries and hundreds of arrests, triggering anger…
LAGOS OCTOBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Cameroon’s President Paul Biya said he will drop charges against 333 prisoners arrested for their alleged roles in a two-year separatist uprising, but rebel leaders dismissed the move as a political stunt and pledged to keep fighting. The announcement on Twitter on Thursday comes during peace talks launched by Biya to end…
LAGOS OCTOBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS-U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday congratulated Nigeria on her 59th Independence Anniversary. Trump extended his congratulations in a message to President Muhammadu Buhari which was published on the website of U.S. Embassy and Consulate in Nigeria. In the message, Trump said Nigeria is one of U.S. strongest partners in Africa. READ…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A prominent bodyguard of Saudi King Salman was killed following a personal dispute, state-run media reported. Major General Abdulaziz Al Faghem died of gunshot wounds in hospital after a friend shot him at Al Shatti district of the Red Sea city of Jeddah, the state-run Saudi Press Agency reported on Sunday, citing…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)- – Dozens of baskets brimming with newly-picked tomatoes gently rot in the sticky heat, becoming the latest casualty in a bout of trade tension between Benin and Nigeria. On August 19, President Muhammadu Buhari unexpectedly closed Nigeria’s borders to goods trade with Benin and Niger, declaring the time had come to…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-US special representative on Ukraine Kurt Volker resigned Friday after Congress ordered him to answer questions in an impeachment investigation on President Donald Trump, a source said. A person familiar with the matter who requested anonymity confirmed Volker’s resignation, which was first reported by the student newspaper at Arizona State University, where…