LAGOS JUNE 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Senegal has temporarily closed its consulates abroad following attacks on diplomatic missions in Bordeaux, Milan, Paris and New York among others, the foreign affairs ministry said on Tuesday. The closures were announced in the wake of deadly unrest that broke out after a leading opposition figure, Ousmane Sonko, was handed a two-year…
LAGOS APRIL 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former President Trump is back in the Big Apple. The 76-year-old landed in New York City Wednesday night ahead of his expected deposition Thursday morning in the $250 million business fraud lawsuit brought against him and his company by New York Attorney General Letitia James. The embattled 45th president’s arrival comes a…
LAGOS MAY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Grammy Award-winning Nigerian singer, Damini Ogulu, popularly known as Burna Boy, thrilled music lovers in New York with an electrifying performance on Thursday night at the prestigious Madison Square Garden. The historic concert with caption ‘One Night In Space’, saw Burna Boy performing at the famous Madison Square Garden which has a…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 16TH(NEWSRANGERS)-A girl who went missing more than two years ago at the age of 4 was found alive by police on Monday, hidden underneath a staircase in a New York home. Paislee Shultis, now 6, was found at a residence in Saugerties, about 45 miles south of Albany, on Monday night after authorities…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday in New York appealed to rich nations and international financial institutions for outright debt cancellation for countries facing the most severe challenges in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic that had ravaged economies globally. In his speech at the 76th Session of the UN General Assembly, Buhari…
LAGOS JULY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 60-year-old woman jumped from the roof of her luxury Midtown building while holding her tiny lap dog Friday afternoon, leaving both dead, according to cops and law-enforcement sources. The unidentified Manhattan woman had just finished her last meal on top of the 46-story apartment complex where she lived — The Victory…
LAGOS JULY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-It’s well after midnight on a Saturday morning, but traffic is as thick as rush hour along a four-block industrial stretch in East New York, Brooklyn. Scantily clad women walk mid-block, their heels click-clacking on the asphalt as they move from car to car, leaning into driver’s side windows to entice the…
LAGOS MAY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The United States’ Federal Bureau of Investigation has arrested Abidemi Rufai, a Senior Special Assistant to Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, over $350,000 fraudulent US unemployment claims. Rufai was arrested on Friday evening at the John F Kennedy International Airport in New York based on criminal complaint. He was subsequently charged with…