LAGOS APRIL 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 52-year-old Canadian, Kyliuk Morris, on Tuesday said policemen in Ogun State assisted him to deliver the N2.5m ransom paid to his kidnappers to regain his freedom. Morris, in a chat with PUNCH Metro in Abeokuta, said his ordeal started when he was abducted by the hoodlums at Fidiwo, in the Obafemi-Owode…
LAGOS APRIL 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-With poems, videos and a riveting testimony from a former Prosecutor General of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), the African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org), in collaboration with the Rwandan Embassy and the Rwandan community in Côte d’Ivoire, observed the 25th commemoration of the Genocide against the Tutsis in Rwanda…
LAGOS APRIL 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former President Alan Garcia mortally wounded himself with a gunshot to his head Wednesday as officers waited to arrest him in a big graft probe that has put Peru’s most prominent politicians behind bars and provoked a reckoning over corruption. Authorities broke through a door at Garcia’s mansion in a leafy, upscale…
LAGOS APRIL 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Tiger Woods collected his 15th major win, and his fifth Masters, at the 2019 Masters Tournament on Sunday. The 43-year-old hadn’t won a major championship since 2008, when he triumphed at the U.S. Open. Besides donning the coveted green jacket, Woods earned a sizable paycheck: $2.07 million, which is the standard 18…
LAGOS APRIL 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two of France’s richest families pledged a total of €300 million on Tuesday to help rebuild Notre-Dame cathedral, ravaged by a catastrophic fire that destroyed its spire and most of the roof. Members of the public were also donating money in response to appeals by France’s heritage foundation, the Fondation du Patrimoine…
LAGOS APRIL 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Donald Trump will have to release five years of tax returns if he wants appear on the Illinois 2020 presidential ballot, the state’s senate has ruled. The bill, which still requires approval by the Prairie State’s House of Representatives, comes amid a growing row in Washington over Mr Trump’s unprecedented refusal to…
LAGOS APRIL 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ousted president of Sudan Omar al-Bashir has been detained by the soldiers who toppled him, but protestors against his iron-fisted rule swiftly rejected the “coup” and vowed to keep up their demonstrations. In a sombre televised address, Defence Minister General Awad Mohamed Ahmed Bin Aouf, announced “the toppling of the regime” and…
LAGOS APRIL 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Israeli municipality in Safed has turned Al-Ahmar Mosque into a bar and events hall, Al-Quds Al-Arabi reported yesterday. As one of the most historical mosques in the Arab city, which was occupied by the Jewish gangs in 1948, the building was first turned into a Jewish school, then into a centre…