LAGOS MARCH 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The 2024 Commonwealth Law Ministers Meeting opened in Zanzibar on Monday, March 4th, 2024 with calls for stronger action to ensure that access to justice becomes a reality for all 2.5 billion Commonwealth citizens. In her remarks to the opening ceremony on 4 March 2024, the Commonwealth Secretary-General, the Rt Hon Patricia…
LAGOS MARCH 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria might be on its path to peace again after a decade of fighting terrorism as a UK-based Nigerian, Yunusa Jibrin said he has leveraged on Artificial Intelligence (AI) to be able to identify bandits and their hideouts in Nigeria. He said his findings, if adopted by the federal government, would help…
LAGOS MARCH 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nikki Haley has defeated Donald Trump in the Republican primary in Washington DC. This is her first victory over the former president in the 2024 campaign to become the Republican presidential candidate. She lost in South Carolina, her home state. But she is the first woman to win a Republican primary in…
LAGOS MARCH 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Real estate tycoon Truong My Lan faces the death penalty in a trial that began Tuesday over alleged fraud amounting to $12.5 billion — nearly 3% of the country’s 2022 GDP and Vietnam’s largest financial fraud case on record. The 66-year-old chair of the real estate company Van Thinh Phat allegedly used…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Thirty one people have died after a bus flipped over and plunged off a bridge in Mali on Tuesday. The bus had been en route to neighbouring Burkina Faso from the Malian town of Kenieba when it veered off a bridge crossing the Bagoe river. At least ten others were injured –…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-US Air Force member Aaron Bushnell has died from his injuries after setting himself on fire outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC, officials confirmed on Monday. A US Air Force spokesperson confirmed to The Post that 25-year-old Bushnell died overnight, though she did not officially name him citing the ongoing notification of next of kin. Officials were still contacting…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Dozens of people have been shot dead at a mosque on the same day that a church was attacked, say the authorities in Burkina Faso. It was during early-morning prayers that the gunmen surrounded the mosque in Natiaboani town. “The victims were all Muslims, most of them men,” a local resident told…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At least 15 people have been killed and two others injured following an attack on a Catholic church in north-eastern Burkina Faso on Sunday. It took place during Sunday worship in Essakane village in Oudalan province – close to the border with Mali. Few details have been given. A church official indicated…