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,…
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,…
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…
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….
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…
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….
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…
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…