LAGOS MAY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Russia has sentenced an Australian man to 13 years in a maximum-security prison for fighting alongside Ukrainian forces, state prosecutors in the Russian-controlled parts of eastern Ukraine said Friday. Oscar Jenkins, 33, was found guilty by a court in Luhansk of participating in an armed conflict as a mercenary, prosecutors said in…
LAGOS AUGUST 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A New Zealand court has sentenced a man who killed 51 people at two mosques to life in prison without parole, the first person in the country’s history to receive this sentence. Australian Brenton Tarrant, 29, admitted to the murder of 51 people, attempted murder of another 40 people and one charge…
LAGOS MAY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Experts are now convinced they have finally uncovered what happened to the disappeared Malaysian Airlines flight MH370. Mystery has surrounded the doomed MH370, which disappeared en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 passengers on board, since March 2014. A panel of aviation experts have been working towards an explanation for…
LAGOS MAY 12 (NEWSRANGERS)-An Australian grandmother on Thursday lamented the $480,000 (N173m), she lost to three different online scammers, who happen to be Africans. The grandmother identified as Suzie admits to being ‘gullible’ and ‘brainwashed’ in the past – having sold her home and parted with close to half a million dollars in order to…