LAGOS MAY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A survivor, families of the disappeared and human rights organizations are seeking the extradition and prosecution in Ghana of Gambia’s former leader Yahya Jammeh for allegedly ordering the killing of more than 50 West African migrants in 2005. The murdered migrants are from Ghana, Nigeria and other West African countries. Human Rights…
LAGOS MAY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)- Yesterday, senior members of the House Committee on Natural Resources issued a strong letter to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) demanding an investigation into the illegal wildlife trafficking on Facebook. The letter referenced an anonymous Dodd-Frank Act whistleblower complaint filed with the SEC in August 2017 by the whistleblower…
LAGOS MAY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Experts are now convinced they have finally uncovered what happened to the disappeared Malaysian Airlines flight MH370. Mystery has surrounded the doomed MH370, which disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 passengers on board, since March 2014. A panel of aviation experts have been working towards an explanation for…
LAGOS MAY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)— Israeli soldiers shot and killed at least 41 Palestinians during mass protests along the Gaza border on Monday. It was the deadliest day there since a devastating 2014 cross-border war and cast a pall over Israel’s festive inauguration of the new U.S. Embassy in contested Jerusalem. In a show of anger…
LAGOS MAY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Three generations of a single family were identified Saturday as the victims of Australia’s worst mass shooting in 22 years, a murder-suicide which left seven people dead. They included Katrina Miles, 35, and her four children — three boys and a girl aged eight to 13 — who were found Friday in…
LAGOS MAY 12 (NEWSRANGERS)-An Australian grandmother on Thursday lamented the $480,000 (N173m), she lost to three different online scammers, who happen to be Africans. The grandmother identified as Suzie admits to being ‘gullible’ and ‘brainwashed’ in the past – having sold her home and parted with close to half a million dollars in order to…
LAGOS MAY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 104-year-old Australian scientist who travelled to Switzerland to end his life committed assisted suicide on Thursday, the foundation which helped him die said. David Goodall, who had been barred from seeking help to end his life in his home country, did not have a terminal illness but said his quality of…
LAGOS MAY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-British-born academic Dr David Goodall has explained why he has chosen to end his own life at the age of 104. Dr. Goodall, who was born in Britain but lived for much of his life in Australia, travelled to Switzerland to visit a euthanasia clinic. Wearing a sweatshirt with the slogan ‘Ageing…
