LAGOS SEPTEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A video which has gone viral on social media, captured moment some Pakistani traders engaged in a fight with some South Africans who attacked and looted their stores. Some looters were spotted fleeing with some appliances looted from stores owned by foreigners during the attack which occurred at Witbank on Wednesday September…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Peter Obi, on Friday mourned the passing of renowned academic, Obi Prof. Chukuka Okonjo, describing him as one of the best intellectuals ever to come out of Africa. He spoke shortly after the news of the death of the 91 years old…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ouagadougou (AFP) – West African leaders on Saturday announced a billion-dollar plan to fight the rising problem of jihadist violence in the region, at a summit in Burkina Faso. The plan, to be funded from 2020 to 2024, was announced at end of the Economic Community Summit of West African States in…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 1TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The White House announced Saturday that Hamza bin Laden , the son of the late al-Qaida leader who had become an increasingly prominent figure in the terrorist organization, was killed in a U.S. counterterrorism operation in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region. A statement issued in President Donald Trump’s name gave no further details, such…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There was panic in Lagos as angry Nigerian youths stormed a construction site near the Ikeja railway to destroy things after at least one train passenger died following an accident yesterday. According to reports, a train was moving along the Ikeja railway, with some passengers hanging from it. At PWD bus stop,…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Canadian election campaign is off to a flying start, even if Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s plane was grounded by a scraped wing. A bus ferrying journalists collided with the wing of the Liberal party’s chartered Boeing on Wednesday night, BBC reported. Photos show a scrape where the coach roof hit the…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government says it will engage law enforcement agencies against parties whose actions or inactions lead to diversion of anti-malaria drugs (ACT) supplied to Nigeria by Global Fund. Evelyln Ngige, the Director Public Health, Federal Ministry of Health, disclosed this at the 62nd National Council of Health Meeting on Friday in…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former Peruvian first lady was dragged out of a courtroom in San Francisco on Thursday as she cursed a judge’s decision to keep her husband, ex-president Alejandro Toledo, in jail pending extradition proceedings. Toledo, 73, is wanted in Peru to stand trial over accusations that he took a $20 million bribe…
