LAGOS MAY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A man who filmed himself setting fire to a Bible before uploading it to social media has been found shot dead. Antônio Rocha de Sousa was found dead on Wednesday, May 14, having suffered several gunshot wounds to his body. Police are treating his death as murder. 10 days before being killed,…
LAGOS JANUARY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Brazil’s government expressed outrage on Saturday after dozens of immigrants deported from the United States arrived by plane in handcuffs, calling it a “flagrant disregard” for their rights. The foreign ministry said it would demand an explanation from Washington over the “degrading treatment of passengers on the flight”. The spat comes as…
LAGOS OCTOBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 80,000 people attended the just-concluded two-day crusade organised by the Synagogue Church of all Nations (SCOAN) in Argentina. The SCOAN Leader, Pastor Evelyn Joshua, made this known in a statement signed the spokesperson of the church, Mr Dare Adejumo, on Tuesday in Lagos. Evelyn, Wife of SCOAN Founder, late…
LAGOS AUGUST 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A COUPLE jumped to their deaths while clutching their baby in a desperate attempt to escape their burning flat. The pair jumped from the seventh-floor apartment in Brazil with their two-month-old son in front of horrified onlookers. Luiz Evaldo Lima, Graciane Rosa de Oliveira, and baby Léo Oliveira de Lima died on…
LAGOS AUGUS10TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-A passenger plane crashed into a gated residential community in Brazil’s Sao Paulo state Friday, killing all 61 people aboard and leaving a smoldering wreck, officials and the airline said. Officials did not say if anyone was killed on the ground in the neighborhood where the plane landed in the city of Vinhedo,…
LAGOS MAY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-THE SON of the most-decorated player in Real Madrid’s history has been handed the “maximum” contract allowed by the club. The 14-year-old Enzo Alves is the hottest property in the club’s academy. The Brazilian’s son has already represented Spain at international levelCredit: Instagram @enzoalvesv The hotshot was already tied down to the…
LAGOS MARCH 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Dani Alves is on the street after paying one million euros bail to obtain provisional freedom after the trial he faced for a sexual assault case and for which he was sentenced to four and a half years in prison. After a tough court battle in which Ines Guardiola, his last lawyer,…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Africa’s richest man and Chairman of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote is feeling the heat of Nigeria’s economic crisis with his net worth shedding $1.1bn or the equivalent of N1.88tn (N1,665.5/$). The billionaire’s misfortune is coming one week after he earned a whopping $144m, an equivalent of N221.46bn (N1,537.9/$) in a single day….