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How Passengers Wrestle Gun From 17-Year-Old On Board Plane

LAGOS MARCH 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Police in Australia have charged a 17-year-old who got on a plane with a shotgun and ammunition. He was filmed being wrestled to the ground by passengers and crew as the aircraft prepared to take off from Avalon Airport, near Melbourne, carrying 160 people bound for Sydney on Thursday afternoon. Police believe […]

Son Of Most Wanted Mexican Drug Lord Sentenced To Life In US Prison

LAGOS MARCH 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A top leader of Mexico’s violent Jalisco New Generation cartel was sentenced to life in US prison Friday for his bloody role in creating one of the world’s most powerful drug syndicates. Ruben Oseguera Gonzalez, 35, is the son of Mexico’s most-wanted man — Jalisco New Generation leader Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, who […]

Woman Charged With Kidnapping And Sale Of Her Daughter In South Africa

LAGOS MARCH 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A South African woman went on trial Monday charged with kidnapping and selling her young daughter in a case that gained national attention. Kelly Smith is charged alongside her partner and another man over the disappearance of her daughter Joshlin more than a year ago. Joshlin, who was 6 when she disappeared, […]

Fleeing ‘Cocaine Queen Of Europe’ Nabbed After Four Years On The Run

LAGOS MARCH 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-To outsiders, Tania Gomez was the glamorous 33-year-old owner of a dog rescue centre in Stockholm, who had moved to Lanzarote for a quieter life. But to police, she was known as the “Cocaine Queen of Europe” and one of the Continent’s most wanted fugitives. Now, after four years on the run, […]

London Court Awards $380m Against NLNG For  Breach of Contract

LAGOS FEBRUARY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A London court has awarded a $380 million judgment against the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) for non-delivery of cargoes to trading houses Vitol and Glencore. The court awarded $260 million in compensation to Vitol, and $120 million to Glencore. The case heard in London’s High Court and Court of Appeal is […]

One Survives, 20 Oil Workers Die As Plane Crashes In South Sudan

LAGOS FEBRUARY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Only one person has survived a plane crash in South Sudan, which killed 20 oil workers who were on board, the government said. The plane, which was heading to the capital, Juba, crashed three minutes after take-near the oil fields in Unity State on Wednesday morning, said Petroleum Minister Puot Kang Chol. […]

Panic As Mystery Illness Kills Over 50 People Hours After  Falling  Sick

LAGOS FEBRUARY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An unknown illness first discovered in three children who ate a bat has rapidly killed more than 50 people in northwestern Congo over the past five weeks, health experts say. The interval between the onset of symptoms – which include fever, vomiting and internal bleeding – and death has been 48 hours […]

Woman Who Lost Her Son In Lockerbie Pan Am Plane Crash Created Massive Group Sculpture Of Grieving Mothers

LAGOS FEBRUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERANGERS)-Suse Lowenstein was working on a sculpture in her home studio in New Jersey when she received a phone call that would forever shatter her family. It came from a friend. In a trembling voice, she asked Lowenstein which flight her son, Alexander, was on from his semester studying abroad in London. […]

Pope Francis Critically Ill  After A Long Respiratory Crisis, Requiring Oxygen At High Flow

LAGOS FEBRUARY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)- Pope Francis was in critical condition Saturday after he suffered a prolonged asthmatic respiratory crisis while being treated for pneumonia and a complex lung infection, the Vatican said. The 88-year-old pope, who remains conscious, received “high flows” of oxygen to help him breathe. He also received blood transfusions after tests showed […]

Netherlands To Repatriate 119 Looted Benin Bronzes To Nigeria

LAGOS FEBRUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Netherlands is returning 119 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria, marking one of the largest repatriations of the looted artifacts to date. The bronzes, plundered by British forces in 1897 and later acquired by Dutch institutions, will be transferred following an agreement signed by Dutch and Nigerian officials, as momentum for restitution efforts […]

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