LAGOS JULY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS0-Karaye emirate in Kano has suspended Abdullahi Sa’adu, the village head of Butu-Butu in Rimingado LGA of the state, for selling land to Fulani herdsmen. Karaye is one of the four new emirates created in 2019 by Abdullahi Ganduje, governor of Kano. Haruna Muhammad Gunduwawa, the spokesperson of the emirate, released a…
LAGOS JULY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-It’s well after midnight on a Saturday morning, but traffic is as thick as rush hour along a four-block industrial stretch in East New York, Brooklyn. Scantily clad women walk mid-block, their heels click-clacking on the asphalt as they move from car to car, leaning into driver’s side windows to entice the…
LAGOS JULY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Russian plane that disappeared off radar near the Tomsk region of Siberia has been located – and all 19 passengers on board are alive, local officials told Sky News. The Antonov-28 plane, operated by regional airline SiLA, had made an emergency landing after both engines failed, officials said. The plane extended…
LAGOS JULY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian Olympic delegate became the first visitor to the Tokyo Games admitted to hospital with COVID-19, broadcaster TV Asahi said on Friday, as Japan battles to stem rising local infections a week before the showpiece event starts. The individual, a non-athlete in their 60s, tested positive on Thursday evening at the…
LAGOS JULY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ugandan weightlifter Julius Ssekitoleko failed to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics this week. Then, on Friday, he disappeared. A note has been discovered, CNN reports, written by the 20-year-old insisting he went missing on purpose and does not want to return to his home country because life there is too difficult. Ssekitoleko…
LAGOS JULY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-More than 13 million people from around the globe — the applicants and their family members or “derivatives” — tried to legally immigrate to the United States through the 2022 Diversity Immigrant Visa Program, better known as the visa lottery. U.S. Department of State statistics released this week in the Visa Bulletin…
LAGOS JULY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Luke Loucks isn’t exactly sure what his long-term future will be as a basketball coach. But the former Florida State point guard, who helped lead the Seminoles to the 2012 ACC Championship, knows exactly what his immediate future is: He will be heading to the Olympics in Japan next week as an…
LAGOS JULY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In a shocking video that has now gone viral, a man who claims to be called Sunday Tinubu, has cried out that former Governor of Lagos State and All Progressive Congress (APC) national leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is his biological father. The video posted which is steadily gathering public attention, Sunday…
