LAGOS JULY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-More than 13 million people from around the globe — the applicants and their family members or “derivatives” — tried to legally immigrate to the United States through the 2022 Diversity Immigrant Visa Program, better known as the visa lottery. U.S. Department of State statistics released this week in the Visa Bulletin…
LAGOS MAY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Minister of Women Affairs of Nigeria, Aisha Jummai Al-Hassan, popularly known as Mama Taraba is dead. Her media aide, Bala Maina, confirmed the incident to Channels Television via the telephone on Friday. The ex-minister was said to have passed away at an undisclosed hospital in Cairo, Egypt. She was 61 years…
LAGOS APRIL 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Egypt could be lining up a $1bn claim in damages after the 20,388 teu Ever Given giant container vessel caused a headline grabbing traffic jam in the Suez Canal for almost a week. Ossama Rabei, the head of Suez Canal Authority, told Egypt’s Sada ElBalad news channel he estimates the $1bn figure…
LAGOS MARCH 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Dozens have been killed and over a hundred people injured when two trains collided in central Egypt on Friday, according to the country’s health ministry. The rail authority said that quote, “unknown individuals” triggered the emergency brakes on one of the trains causing it to stop. The second train, which was traveling…