LAGOS DECEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Pennsylvania judge did not err in allowing five women to take the stand against Bill Cosby to prove he was a serial sexual predator, an appeals court ruled Tuesday. The unanimous Superior Court ruling upholds Cosby’s 2018 conviction on three counts of aggravated indecent assault for drugging and molesting Temple University…
LAGOS DECEMBER 10TH (NEWRANGERS)-South Africa’s state power company intensified rolling blackouts to a record, signaling a deepening crisis at the debt-ridden utility and raising the risk of a second recession in as many years. Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd. said on Monday it will move to Stage 6 load-shedding from 6 p.m. local time, meaning it…
LAGOS DECEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Wildlife officials in Kenya’s capital city of Nairobi are searching for a stray lion that reportedly mauled a man to death in recent days outside a national park. With the predator on the loose, the Kenya Wildlife Service has urged residents to avoid walking at night until it is captured, Kenyans.co.ke reported….
LAGOS DECEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A military plane with 38 persons on board has disappeared en route to Antarctica, Chile’s air force says in a statement. The C-130 Hercules transport aircraft took off from Punta Arenas at 16:55 local time (19:55 GMT), and operators lost contact soon after 18:00 (21:00). Among the missing are 17 crew members…
LAGOS DECEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The United States has extradited 64-year-old Babatunde Martins, a Nigerian living in Ghana, to Memphis to stand trial for an indictment charging him with cybercrimes and identity theft. According to the U.S Department of Justice, a federal grand jury in the U.S District Court for the Western District of Tennessee indicted Martins…
LAGOS DECEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The mill is on overdrive after suggestions that former President Jacob Zuma was whisked away “incognito” style to Cuba for an emergency medical procedure after sources claimed he was poisoned. This would be the second time Jacob Zuma would have been poisoned after the first attempt was allegedly orchestrated by his wife Nompumelelo Ntuli-Zuma,…
LAGOS DECEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No less than 40 people were killed in a fire incident at a factory while the workers slept in the middle of the night. In a report by The BBC, the blaze broke out at the four-storey building in the city’s congested old quarter early on Sunday morning. At least 100 people…
LAGOS DECEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS) – Restaurants in Saudi Arabia will no longer need to maintain entrances segregated by sex, the authorities said on Sunday, further eroding some of the world’s strictest social rules as sweeping reforms take hold. Previously, Saudi Arabia required all restaurants to have one entrance for families and women, and another for…
