LAGOS MARCH 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than forty nine people were killed and dozens more injured in a mass shooting in Christchurch, New Zealand, Friday when a gunman opened fire inside two mosques. The shootings were categorized as a terrorist attack. “It’s something that we never expected to have happen here,” Christchurch MP Gerry Brownlee told…
LAGOS MARCH 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Joseph Karanja lost his wife, daughter and three grandchildren in the Ethiopian Airline crash that happened on March 10 He said his wife had traveled to visit their daughter in Canada and was returning home after six months The five who perished were traveling back to Kenya for Easter holidays Karanja said…
LAGOS MARCH 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)- – Islamic State faced imminent defeat in its final enclave on Tuesday as hundreds of jihadist fighters and their families surrendered and the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces said the battle was as good as over. A Reuters journalist in Baghouz saw hundreds of people surrendering to the SDF, which launched its…
LAGOS MARCH 12TH (NEWRANGERS)-Former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan said he believes there are some Democrats who could defeat President Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election. Ryan, in one of his first public appearances after retiring from Congress, weighed in on Trump’s chances and reflected on his tenure in Congress during a Monday…
LAGOS MARCH 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Rev Vincent Mulwa, a theologian and G.O of Christ Pilgrim Restoration Centre, Kenya, has come out to challenge the widely-held Christian doctrine that men should only marry one wife. In an interview with Newsmen, Rev. Mulwa said Africans bought the world views of European missionaries who brought Christianity into Africa and abandoned…
LAGOS MARCH 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An unemployed New Jersey man won a $273m (£210m) Mega Millions lottery jackpot last week after a stranger found and returned the winning ticket he had left behind on a shop counter. The man, Michael J Weirsky, told reporters on Thursday he lost two tickets immediately after he bought them at a…
LAGOS MARCH 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)– China and Indonesia grounded their fleets of Boeing’s 737 MAX 8 aircraft on Monday as witnesses recalled the terrifying spectacle of smoke and debris trailing from an Ethiopian Airlines plane before it crashed killing 157 people. The disaster came just months after a jet of the same model came down in…
LAGOS MARCH 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Thai billionaire and big farm owner, Arnon Rodthong on Tuesday rolled out surprise as he promised a whopping sum £240,000 – as well as his entire estate – to the man who marries his 26-year-old virgin daughter. The 50-year old who owns a prosperous durian fruit farm in Chumphon province, southern…