LAGOS FEBRUARY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Jacob Zuma has quit as President of South Africa, finally succumbing to a slew of corruption scandals that have drained support from his ruling African National Congress party. “No life should be lost in my name and also the ANC should never be divided in my name,” he said during a nationally…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)- Apparently a 20-year old Kenyan lady is reported to have surprised her boyfriend with a brand new Mercedes-Benz e 200 2010 on Valentines day. The lady identified as Fridah Kariuki is a model and a student from Kenya Methodist University decided to gift her man Michael Musyimi with a new Mercedes…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A pastor died yesterday after he drowned while baptising his church members in the river at Blood River village in Seshego outside Polokwane in South Africa. According to reports, the pastor entered the flooded river and was swept away. The church members who were about to be baptised, were left reeling from…
strong> LAGOS FEBRUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-29-year-old Nigerian man, Innocent Oseghale, has been charged with the murder of Pamela Mastropietro, an 18-year-old whose dismembered body was found Wednesday in two suitcases dumped in the countryside outside Pollenza near Macerata in Marche Oseghale has also been charged with disposing of a body. Oseghale denied the charges and tried…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The eldest son of late Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro, Fidel Castro Diaz-Balart, committed suicide on Thursday aged 68 after being treated for months for depression, Cuban state-run media reported. The nuclear scientist, also known as “Fidelito”, or Little Fidel, because of how much he looked like his father, had initially been…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Ralia Odinga, Kenyan opposition leader, has sworn himself in as an alternative president. Odinga supporters attended the ceremony which held in Nairobi, the country’s capital. Security was tight in Nairobi as government shut down independent TV stations to prevent the programme from being aired. On Monday, Linus Kaikai, chairman of the Kenya…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-San Francisco will retroactively apply California’s new marijuana legalization laws to prior convictions, expunging or reducing misdemeanors and felonies dating to 1975, the district attorney’s office announced Wednesday. Nearly 5,000 felony marijuana convictions will be reviewed, recalled and resentenced, and more than 3,000 misdemeanors that were sentenced prior to Proposition 64’s passage…
LAGOS JANUARY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Three people arrested in connection with the abduction and murder of a 28-year-old Nigerian student in Famagusta, have been arraigned in court today. .According to police investigation, Kennedy Toomwabwa Dede was assaulted by 8 people, yesterday, kidnapped from his car, taken to the Çanakkale Pond, seriously beaten and killed there. .Three Turkish…
