LAGOS JULY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The body of a newborn baby was discovered on a local flight in India on Wednesday, the police have revealed. The baby appeared to have been delivered on board in the toilet and had toilet paper stuffed in its mouth, reports NDTV. Police suspected that the mother is an underage girl on…
LAGOS JULY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-At least 3,000 villagers have been forced to leave their homes in the Lake Chad region after a Boko Haram attack on a village near Chad’s border with Niger left at least 18 people dead. Lake Chad governor, Mohammed Aba Salah, told Al Jazeera on Sunday that the fighters also kidnapped 10…
LAGOS JULY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen have shot dead 11 taxi drivers returning to Johannesburg from the funeral of a colleague in Kwa-Zulu Natal, a police spokesman said on Sunday. The drivers, who were members of the Gauteng taxi association, were in a minibus driving along the R74 when unknown gunmen launched an ambush and opened fire….
LAGOS JULY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Cameroon has arrested four soldiers suspected of shooting dead two women and two children in the country’s far north where its army is battling jihadist group Boko Haram, two security sources told Reuters. A video of the incident, which has been shared tens of thousands of times on Twitter since it emerged…
LAGOS JULY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Russian warship called Dmitrii Donskoi carrying gold worth £100 billion has been discovered off the coast of South Korea and is believed to have sunk in a naval battle 113 years ago. It is thought that the battle ship, which was discovered off the island of Ulleungdo, was sunken during the…
LAGOS JULY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Saudi Arabia on Tuesday executed seven people convicted of criminal offenses, including five men for the robbery and murder of a Pakistani warehouse guard in the western city of Jiddah. The Interior Ministry said the five men, two Saudis and three Chad nationals, stabbed and beat the guard and stole his mobile…
LAGOS JULY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Indonesian villagers armed with knives, hammers and clubs slaughtered 292 crocodiles in revenge for the death of a man killed by a crocodile at a breeding farm, an official said. Photographs released by Antara news agency showed bloodied carcasses of the crocodiles in a large pile in the Sorong district of the…
LAGOS JULY 13TH (NESRANGERS)-Tens of thousands of protesters are expected to take to the streets as Donald Trump meets with Theresa May on Friday to discuss a possible trade deal on a four-day working visit to the UK. Trump was met with handshakes and smiles when he landed at Stansted in Airforce One at 1:51pm…
