LAGOS JANUARY27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Los Angeles County officials said the Sunday morning helicopter crash that killed NBA legend Kobe Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, also claimed the lives of seven other victims. Los Angeles County fire chief Daryl Osby said after receiving a 911 call just before 10 a.m. on Sunday, they discovered a brush fire…
LAGOS JANUARY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The wildfires raging in the city of Los Angeles in the United States have killed at least 24 people, officials said, as firefighters raced to put out the blazes before the return of strong winds that could fuel the flames again. The blazes burned for a sixth straight day on Sunday, reducing…
LAGOS OCTOBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Operatives of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) while on duty today picked up an underage girl found loitering around Jibowu under the Bridge. The Director, Public Affairs and Enlightenment Department of LASTMA Mr Adebayo Taofiq confirmed that the young girl was picked while sitting lonely under the bridge at…
LAGOS JUNE 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Embattled Governor of Edo state, Godwin Obaseki has secure the endorsement of all the governors of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the-South South to represent the main opposition party in the September governorship election in the state. However, the state’s Deputy Governor Hon. Phillip Shaibu will be the sacrificial lamb for…
LAGOS BEBRUARY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Members of Malcolm X’s family have made public what they described as a letter written by a deceased police officer stating that the New York Police Department and FBI were behind the 1965 killing of the famed Black activist and civil rights advocate. Malcolm X was a powerful orator who rose to…
LAGOS OCTOBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A senior lecturer at the has come out to share his experience about how a Nigerian female student in one of the country’s universities offered him sex-for-grade. Acheampong who spoke on Ahotor FM said: “She was a Nigerian student.” According to Dr. Acheampong, the student had included “her naked picture and telephone…
LAGOS MARCH 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, has insisted that the presidential election held on February 25 was won by the candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi, and not the candidate of the All Progressive Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. It, therefore, said that the decision of Obi to challenge the results…
LAGOS JUNE 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-French prosecutors on Wednesday requested a four-year jail term and a fine of 500,000 euros ($562,000) for Lamine Diack, the former IAAF president standing trial for corruption, money laundering and breach of trust. Prosecutors said that Diack, an 87-year-old Senegalese who led track and field’s governing body for nearly 16 years, directly…