LAGOS SEPTEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Popular Afrobeat singer David Adeleke, widely known as Davido, recently performed at the Ethiopia New Year party as the country enters 2017. As seen in a video trending on social media on Wednesday, thousands of Ethiopians trooped out at the event in Addis Ababa, the country’s capital, celebrating their unique new year….
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Four hundred Nigerians, comprising 90 females and 310 males, have been deported from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), according to reports by the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA). The deportees arrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, where they were received by officials from the National Security Adviser’s office, the National Commission…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Vice President of Liberia, Jeremiah Koung has revealed that out of eight licensed commercial banks in his country, four are owned by Nigerians. The Vice President disclosed in his remarks at the opening ceremony of the 17th Annual Banking and Finance Conference in Abuja organized by the Chartered Institute of Bankers…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)– The head of El Salvador’s police force and a man arrested on charges of a multi-million-dollar embezzlement were among the nine people killed when the military helicopter in which they were travelling crashed, authorities said on Monday. Police Director Mauricio Arriaza was escorting the former head of a credit union, Manuel…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The man accused of killing Olympic marathon runner Rebecca Cheptegei by dousing her in petrol and setting her alight has also died, according to the hospital where they were both treated. Cheptegei’s former boyfriend, Dickson Ndiema, died at the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Eldoret on Monday night after being admitted…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The wife of a California inmate will receive $5.6 million after being sexually violated during a strip search when she tried to visit her husband in prison, her attorneys said Monday. After traveling four hours to see her husband at a correctional facility in Tehachapi, Calif. on Sept. 6, 2019, Christina Cardenas…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A terrorist plot to murder Pope Francis in Indonesia has been foiled by local law enforcement with seven suspects arrested with potential links to ISIS, just one month on from a similar situation experienced by Taylor Swift. The Head of the Catholic Church began his tour of the Asian nation, which is…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Venezuelan security forces surrounded the Argentine embassy in the capital Caracas on Friday after two opposition members took refuge inside, according to posts by the opposition on social media. The pair joined four other Venezuelan opposition figures who have taken refuge in the embassy this year. One of the men, Pedro Urruchurtu,…