LAGOS APRIL 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Peel Police Inspector Stephen Duivesteyn speaking at the Toronto Pearson international airport.The Canadian Press / Alamy Live News The incident appears to represent one of Canada’s biggest heists, but it is not the first to unfold at one of the country’s airports. In 1990, another Canadian airport heist made headlines after armed…
LAGOS APRIL 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The bodies of two more migrants who died trying to cross from Canada into the United States, were found Friday, bringing the death toll to eight, including two children, police in the Mohawk Territory of Akwesasne said. The bodies of six people, described as members of two families of Romanian and Indian…
LAGOS JANUARY 11H (NEWSRANGERS)-The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, said buying Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), also known as fuel, at N300 per litre is not too much for Nigerians. Sylva said in comparison with fuel prices in United Kingdom, the United States, and the Arab communities, he won’t complain if the petrol…
LAGOS JANAURY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A two-year ban on some foreigners buying homes in Canada has come into effect. The ban aims to help ease one of the most unaffordable housing markets in the world. As of this summer, the average home price in Canada is C$777,200 ($568,000; £473,700) – more than 11 times the median household…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Canadian government has disclosed its immigration plan to welcome half a million immigrants, including Nigerians, each year by 2025 to tackle the labour shortage. Sean Fraser, the Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship released Canada’s 2023-2025 Immigration Levels Plan, which embraces immigration to help businesses find workers and attract the skills…
LAGOS JULY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two Nigerian men, Tosin Amos Arowoshegbe and Eze, lost their lives on Saturday following a shooting at a nightclub in the city of Vaughan, Ontario, north of Toronto in Canada. York Regional Police detectives said officers responded to report of a shooting at ATL Lounge, a restaurant and nightclub in the early…
LAGOS JUNE 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Peter Obi Presidential Global Network (PPGN) on Thursday congratulated Mr Peter Obi for emerging as the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) ahead of the 2023 presidential election. A statement by PPGN Head of Press, Asa Blessing Chijekwu, quoted Dr Michael Chukwujekwu, Global Coordinator of the group from his base…
LAGOS MAY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There was pandemonium at the Mountain of Yahweh Deliverance Ministry, Ijegun, Lagos, after a female member, Mrs. Beatrice Odene, disrupted church service by moving to the pulpit and demanding N3m, which the Pastor, Bernard Okoro, allegedly swindled her husband over false prophecy. P.M.EXPRESS reports that the incident happened at 21 Tunde Akinshola…