LAGOS SEPTEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An Australian pilot has been killed after his plane carrying almost 200kg of cocaine wrapped in fake SpaceX packaging crashed into a sugarcane field in Brazil, local media reported. Authorities said the pilot was found dead outside the aircraft after it crashed in Coruripe, an area on Brazil’s tropical coastline, according to…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Police on Tuesday were investigating the death of a Black college student found hanging from a tree on the campus of Delta State University in Mississippi, stirring online rumors that evoked the state’s history of Jim Crow-era racist violence even as authorities said there was no initial evidence of a crime. The…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former world champion boxer Ricky Hatton has died at the age of 46, just weeks after announcing a comeback to the sport. According to the Daily Mail, the Manchester native was found dead at his home in Greater Manchester on Sunday, September 14, with a police cordon currently in place around the…
LAGOS JULY 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Tragedy struck at King’s College, Lagos, on Saturday evening as a 48-year-old teacher, Mr. Ezekiel Akano, was found dead under mysterious circumstances inside one of the classrooms on the school premises. The incident reportedly occurred after school hours, with the discovery made around 7:40 p.m. by staff members. The Vice Principal of…
LAGOS JULY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A mob of people have lined up outside government offices, demanding to know if their loved ones are among the nearly 400 dead found in a clandestine crematorium that kept the bodies for up to four years. The stench of decaying human remains led investigators to a nondescript building in Juarez, Mexico,…
LAGOS MAY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Days after a Lagos banker, Osemudiamen Idemudia, was declared missing by his family, his body was discovered at a morgue in the Yaba area of the state. PUNCH Metro reported that Idemudia, who worked in the Point-of-Sale department of a commercial bank in the Ikota area of Lagos State, was last seen…
LAGOS APRIL 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-COCAINE worth £100,000 was found stashed in a British Airways plane toilet by a service engineer at Gatwick. The haul was spotted behind a panel while the Boeing was in a hangar for routine checks. It was uncovered after the jet touched down from Orlando, Florida. The engineer called police and now…
LAGOS APRIL 2ND (NEWSRANGERS) – A fourth U.S. Army soldier, who together with three others went missing in Lithuania last week when their vehicle sank in a peat bog, has been found dead, U.S. and Lithuanian officials said on Tuesday. The three other soldiers were found dead on Monday after rescuers recovered the armoured vehicle…