LAGOS FEBRUARY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A ‘violent’ earthquake has rattled Delhi today with locals saying it was the ‘strongest’ they had ever felt. Tremors were felt in India‘s capital city as well as other northern parts of the country, reported India Today. The magnitude 4.0 quake struck 4km southwest of New Delhi and lasted ‘for a few seconds’….
LAGOS JANUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Some gunmen operating under the leadership of a notorious kingpin known as Danisuhu have reportedly imposed a sum N172.7 million levy on 25 villages in the Tsafe west Local Government Area of Zamfara state. It was learnt that the gunmen also demanded material contributions like bags of soybeans and others. Meanwhile, hundreds…
LAGOS DECEMBRT 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Thousands of people have fled the central Syrian city of Homs as insurgents seized two towns on its outskirts as they make their way towards the capital Damascus in a bid to overthrow long-time president, Bashar al Assad. The move, reported by pro-government media and an opposition war monitor, is the latest…
LAGOS OCTOBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Barely three hours after the unsealing of previously closed local government secretariats by the Rivers State Police Command, violence erupted in several areas, leading to arson, shootings, and fatalities. According to Vanguard reports, a section of the Eleme Local Government secretariat, on Monday morning, was set on fire shortly after the arrival…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-BRITS have been told to leave Lebanon immediately as tensions soar between Hezbollah and Israel – with the IDF launching airstrikes on the country’s south. Foreign Secretary David Lammy warned the situation could “deteriorate rapidly” and urged Brits to flee the country while they still can. It comes after 37 people were…
LAGOS APRIL 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) on April 2 took into custody Ifediora Oli, a dual citizen of Nigeria and the United States, for allegedly conniving with two persons to defraud the District of Columbia public transit system after securing a Covid-19 testing kit contract worth more than half a million dollars….
LAGOS MARCH 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Hundreds of inmates fled Haiti’s main prison after armed gangs stormed the facility in an overnight explosion of violence that engulfed much of the capital. At least five people were dead Sunday. The jailbreak marked a new low in Haiti’s downward spiral of violence and came as gangs step up coordinated attacks…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At least 200 people have been killed and thousands have been forced to flee following a sharp uptick of violence in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). In a “dramatic resurgence” of violence, the March 23 Movement (M23) armed rebel group is advancing towards Goma, the capital of North Kivu province, forcing…