LAGOS MAY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-President Alassane Ouattara of Côte d’Ivoire on Wednesday presided over a council of ministers meeting at the presidential palace in Abidjan, the Ivorian capital. The Ivorian presidency confirmed Ouattara’s attendance in a statement it issued, including pictures showing the president and cabinet members at the meeting. False rumours of a military coup…
LAGOS MAY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The father of Junior Pope, Ozor Luke Odonwodo, has died one year after the actor passed away. Junior Pope’s wife, Jennifer Awele, in an Instagram post, disclosed that her father-in-law died in his 80s. She described octogenarian as a caring and devoted father figure who lived a “good life”, prioritised his loved ones…
LAGOS MAY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Two staff members of the Israeli Embassy in Washington were shot and killed Wednesday evening while leaving an event at a Jewish museum, and the suspect yelled, “Free, free Palestine” after he was arrested, police said. Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar identified the victims as Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim. Lischinsky was…
LAGOS MAY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A man who filmed himself setting fire to a Bible before uploading it to social media has been found shot dead. Antônio Rocha de Sousa was found dead on Wednesday, May 14, having suffered several gunshot wounds to his body. Police are treating his death as murder. 10 days before being killed,…
LAGOS MAY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Saudi Arabian authorities have reportedly arrested two women believed to be the wife and mother of Ado Aliero, one of Nigeria’s most wanted bandit kingpins. The women were apprehended in Medina, where they had allegedly been living under false identities. Sources familiar with the operation said the arrests were the result of…
LAGOS MAY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Fierce Nigerian political rivals Peter Obi and President Bola Tinubu were seen laughing and joking at Pope Leo XIV’s inaugural mass in Rome. Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress defeated Obi of the Labour Party in the heated and tightly contested 2023 presidential election – a victory Obi challenged at the Supreme…
LAGOS MAY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Five people were killed on Saturday when two helicopters collided and crashed in a wooded area near Eura Airport in southwestern Finland, police said. Police said the mid-air collision occurred shortly after noon near the town of Kauttua, with the wreckage falling some 700 metres (yards) from the Ohikulkutie road. “Five people…
LAGOS MAY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ten inmates escaped from a New Orleans jail after breaching a wall behind a toilet and possibly having help, the local sheriff said Friday. So far only three of the men have been found. “We have indication that these detainees received assistance in their escape from individuals inside of our department,” Orleans…
