LAGOS MARCH 5TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-Pope Francis will be discharged from Rome’s Gemelli hospital on Sunday and will need at least two months of rest at the Vatican, doctors treating him have said. The 88-year-old was admitted to the hospital on 14 February with a severe respiratory infection that resulted in double pneumonia. During the past five…
LAGOS MARCH 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian conman who duped women out of almost £200,000 in “romance frauds” has avoided deportation after judges ruled his wife and children could not be properly cared for by his home country’s health system. Emmanuel Jack, 35, was jailed for three years in 2014 after he tricked six women he met…
LAGOS MARCH 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration will revoke the temporary legal status of 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans in the United States, according to a Federal Register notice on Friday, the latest expansion of his crackdown on immigration. The move, effective April 24, cuts short a two-year “parole” granted to the migrants…
LAGOS MARCH 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Teenage boys in the UK are being blackmailed by Nigerian crime gangs that pose as young women online – with the National Crime Agency offering advice on what victims should do. NCA officials said boys as young as 14 have been targeted with “sextortion” scams on social networks including Snapchat and Instagram….
LAGOS MARCH 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Sudanese army seized full control of the Presidential Palace in downtown Khartoum on Friday, it said in a statement, in one of the most symbolic gains in a two-year-old conflict with a rival armed group that has threatened to partition the country. The army had long been on the backfoot but…
LAGOS MARCH 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-At least 36 people have been left injured after a major crash between four buses carrying military cadets and another vehicle in France. The horror crash happened on the French A13 near Guerville, about 36 miles west of Paris, just before 7pm on Wednesday. At least 36 people were injured, including one…
LAGOS MARCH 18TH (NEWSRANGERS0-A plane crashed into the sea seconds after taking off from the Honduran island of Roatán, killing at least 12 people, including the musician Aurelio Martínez Suazo, according to reports. The Honduran fire service said five people survived but one was still missing. The service noted bad weather and low visibility in…
LAGOS MARCH 17TH 9NEWSRANGERS) -The U.S. deported more than 250 alleged gang members to El Salvador this weekend, and video posted to social media shows the harsh reception they received in the Central American country. Salvadoran officials said the detainees included 238 Venezuelans who are members of Tren de Aragua gang, as well as 23…