LAGOS MARCH 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The traditional ruler of the Ikate-Elegushi Kingdom, Saheed Ademola (Kusenla III), has declared a three-day Oro rite on non-indigenes and women from midnight to 5:30 a.m., including on Saturday’s governorship and state assembly election day. In a memo issued to the residents of Ikate-Elegushi, the monarch announced that there would be a…
LAGOS MARCH 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Dan Amar of Dutse and district head of Basirka (Hakimi Basirka) in Jigawa State, Alhaji Muhammed Suleiman, died alongside his two children in an accident on Basirka Gwaram road, while on their way to Gwaram on Thursday. His wife and two of his children survived the accident, according to the Sarkin…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Burkina Faso’s most famous revolutionary Thomas Sankara has been reburied in the capital by the military junta – despite his widow and children boycotting the funeral. Sankara was laid to rest at the spot where he was assassinated in 1987. His immediate family wanted the reburial at a site that would “appease…
LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Pope Francis criticized laws that criminalize homosexuality as “unjust,” saying God loves all his children just as they are and called on Catholic bishops who support the laws to welcome LGBTQ people into the church. “Being homosexual isn’t a crime,” Francis said during an exclusive interview Tuesday with The Associated Press. Francis…