LAGOS MARCH 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-India brought 35 accused Somali pirates to Mumbai on Saturday, days after they were apprehended when naval commandos recaptured a hijacked bulk carrier and rescued several hostages. The December hijacking of the Maltese-flagged MV Ruen was the first time since 2017 that any cargo vessel had been successfully boarded by Somali pirates….
LAGOS MARCH 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Lagos Lawyer and human right activist, Chief (Barr) Malcolm Omirhobo has described as unnecessary the fanfare that trailed the inauguration of the first phase of Lagos Rail Mass Transit (LRMT) Red Line project. He stated that the entire inauguration exercise is the height of idleness, redundancy, misplacement of priority, waste of public,…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Following quickly on the success of India’s moon landing, the country’s space agency launched a rocket on Saturday to study the sun in its first solar mission. The rocket left a trail of smoke and fire as scientists clapped, a live broadcast on the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) website showed. The…
LAGOS JUNE 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At a ceremony in November, the Nigerian government celebrated the discovery of as many as 1 billion barrels of oil in the country’s arid northeast, almost 1,000 kilometers (621 miles) away from the crude-rich Niger Delta. The state’s partners in the multi-billion dollar project in the impoverished, landlocked corner of the country…
LAGOS MAY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-India has become the most populated country in the world with an estimated population of over 1.425 billion people. New figures from the United Nations’ Population Division have estimated India’s number of residents to be 1,425,775,850. That means the nation now officially holds the record for highest population, country. India has surpassed…
LAGOS MAY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Three civilians were killed on Monday when a MIG-21 military aircraft crashed into a house in the western Indian state of Rajasthan. The Indian Air Force said in a statement that the plane had taken off for a a “routine operational training sortie” from a nearby base. “Soon thereafter, the pilot experienced an…
LAGOS MAY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A gas leak killed 11 people in India on Sunday, an official said, in the latest deadly industrial accident in the vast developing economy of 1.4 billion people. The gas leak happened in Giaspura, an industrial area of Ludhiana in the northern state of Punjab. “Eleven deaths are confirmed,” Mandeep Singh Sidhu,…
LAGOS APRIL 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An Indian couple has allegedly died by suicide by using a guillotine-like mechanism to decapitate themselves in a sacrificial ritual, police said Sunday. Hemubhai Makwana, 38, and his wife Hansaben, 35, both died by decapitation after using a homemade bladed mechanism in a hut on their farm in the western state of…