LAGOS SEPTEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The recent Gen Z protests, which have already claimed more than 72 lives and inflicted heavy damage on state institutions, have also caused huge loss in Nepal’s media sector, with journalists wounded and multiple news outlets attacked. Reporters covering the demonstrations outside Parliament in Baneshwar came under fire. Journalist Shambhu Dangal was…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former world champion boxer Ricky Hatton has died at the age of 46, just weeks after announcing a comeback to the sport. According to the Daily Mail, the Manchester native was found dead at his home in Greater Manchester on Sunday, September 14, with a police cordon currently in place around the…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two Nigerian conjoined twins, Hassana and Husaina, who recently underwent successful separation surgery in Saudi Arabia, have returned home to a warm reception at Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport, MAKIA. Hassana and Husaina had travelled to Riyadh in October 2023, where they underwent months of comprehensive medical examinations and where Doctors discovered…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A United States District Court in California has convicted Paulinus Iheanacho Okoronkwo, a former General Manager of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC), of $2.1 million bribery scheme linked to oil drilling rights in Nigeria. Okoronkwo, 58, a dual citizen of Nigeria and the United States and also a practising lawyer in…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Junta leader Capt Ibrahim Traoré has portrayed himself as a champion of Pan-Africanism. Burkina Faso says it has removed visa fees for all African travellers, in an effort to facilitate the movement of people and goods into the country. “From now on, any citizen from an African country wishing to go to…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The first set of Nigerians marked for deportation from the US under President Donald Trump have left America. President John Dramani Mahama of Ghana disclosed this to reporters late Wednesday. “A group of 14 deportees including Nigerians and one Gambian have already arrived in Ghana, and the government facilitated their return…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Bola Tinubu spent his Wednesday afternoon in a working lunch with French President Emmanuel Macron at the Élysée Palace in Paris as his 10-day working leave enters its fifth day. Pictures released by the State House Media Office on Wednesday afternoon showed Tinubu and Macron in a warm handshake as…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Hulk Hogan left behind nearly $5 million after his death in July, and now, new court documents reveal a sole beneficiary of his estate. According to new court documents obtained by US Weekly and TMZ, the late WWE star’s son Nick Hogan is named co-personal representative of Hulk’s estate and will inherit…
