LAGOS DECEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Omoyele Sowore has been nominated to receive the Prisoner of Conscience honour from the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission of the United States House of Representatives. The bipartisan commission is charged with promoting, defending and advocating for international human rights. U.S lawmaker, Josh Gottheimer, sponsored Sowore’s nomination for the prestigious recognition….
LAGOS DECEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The office of the Redeemed Christian Church of God in United Kingdom has announced that a 52-year-old pastor of the church, Gabriel Diya, his 16-year-old son, Praise Emmanuel Diya and 9-year-old daughter, Comfort Diya, drowned inside the swimming pool in the Costa del Sol resort in Southern Spain on Tuesday December 24th….
LAGOS DECEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Public support for Donald Trump‘s removal from office is the highest it has ever been, according to a new poll. Fifty-five per cent of those asked said they were in favour of the US president’s conviction by the Senate, a figure which has shot up from 48 per cent the week before….
LAGOS DECEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGRS)-Islamic extremists on motorcycles killed 14 security force members who were escorting election officials in the West African nation of Niger, the first large attack there since 71 soldiers were killed in a massive ambush earlier this month, authorities said Thursday. The attack took place Wednesday night near Sanam, which is about…
LAGOS DECEMBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-UK Charity Commission has indicted the board of trustees of United Kingdom (UK) branch of Christ Embassy, founded by Pastor Chris Oyakhilome of a wide range of fraudulent practices including illegally paying more than N827 million (£1,767,250) to entities and organisations it shares close relationships with. This is coming after a five-year-long…
LAGOS DECEMBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-It’s been a good year for Asia’s richest man, Mukesh Ambani. The Indian tycoon added almost $17 billion to his wealth as of Dec. 23, the most in Asia, taking his net worth to about $61 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. In comparison, Alibaba Group founder Jack Ma’s net worth…
LAGOS DECEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A court in Saudi Arabia on Monday sentenced five people to death for the killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, who was murdered in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul last year by a team of Saudi agents. Saudi Arabia’s state-run Al-Ekhbariya TV channel reported that three others were sentenced to prison….
LAGOS DECEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than eleven people have been killed and more than three hundred treated in hospital after drinking coconut wine in the Philippines, including some who were celebrating at a Christmas party, health and local authorities said on Monday. The poisoning occurred in Laguna and Quezon, two provinces south of Manila, and…
