LAGOS MAY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Norway, Ireland and Spain said Wednesday they would recognize a Palestinian state, a historic but largely symbolic move that further deepens Israel’s isolation more than seven months into its grinding war against Hamas in Gaza. Israel immediately denounced the decisions and recalled its ambassadors to the three countries. Palestinians welcomed the announcements…
LAGOS JULY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A 56-year-old pastor, Ebenezer Oduntan accused of pilfering over €70,000 from church funds over an eight year period has turned himself in to the police. According to insiders, Pastor Oduntan voluntarily went to report himself to the Charity Commission which oversees churches; and to the Irish Police possibly compelled by the Holy…
LAGOS JUNE 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government has summoned the envoys of the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and the European Union in Nigeria over their recent comments on the suspension of microblogging site Twitter in the West African Country. This was contained in an invitation to pressmen issued on Monday morning by Kimiebi Ebienfa of…
LAGOS AUGUST 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A memorandum of understanding(MOU) which was signed earlier this week by both teams from the concerned countries has set the ball rolling for the Republic of Ireland to return some looted funds which was seized from the country’s former military dictator, Gen Abacha. While signing the agreement at the office of the…
LAGOS JUNE 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)- An Irish court has ordered Nigerian born blogger based in Ireland, Esther Esabod Aboderin to take down all defamatory posts on social media on Ooni of Ife, His Imperial Majesty, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, Ojaja II with immediate effect. According to Irish Times.ie, Ooni has dragged the Ireland-based blogger, Esther Esabod…
LAGOS OCTOBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-GRAYS, England (Reuters) – British police found the bodies of 39 people inside a truck container believed to have come from Bulgaria at an industrial estate to the east of London on Wednesday. The discovery was made in the early hours after emergency services were alerted to people in the container, on…
LAGOS AUGUST 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Donald Trump threatened undefined retaliation Friday against countries and organizations that issue travel warnings on the United States because of gun violence. “If they did that, we’d just reciprocate,” Trump said during a wide-ranging impromptu gaggle with reporters at the White House, en route to fundraisers in New York. He added:…
LAGOS JUNE 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Television Authority has been removed from the largest digital satellite television service platform in Europe, Sky Limited. A visit to Sky’s website showed that NTA had been barred indefinitely from airing on Channel 794. A message on Sky’s website read in part, “794: NTA International; currently temporarily removed from EPG…