LAGOS JUNE 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Thousands of George Floyd protesters took to the streets for a tenth straight day of marches and rallies across the Big Apple on Saturday, with many anti-cop demonstrators urging the dismantling of New York’s Finest. Throngs blew past the 8 p.m. curfew in fast-moving marches throughout Manhattan, including Washington Square Park, Union…
LAGOS JUNE 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Legendary Reggae star, Majekodunmi Fasheke, popularly known as Majek Fashek died in New York on June 1. It has now been revealed that he died after battling cancer for almost a year, according to Vanguard. The news of his death was announced by artiste manager Joy Tongo. Majek Fashek’s manager, Uzoma Day…
LAGOS MAY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-They’re partying like it’s 2019. Lockdown-weary New Yorkers ditched the distancing to get social instead this weekend — transforming parts of the Big Apple into a raucous, late-season Mardi Gras. Yet the city’s COVID-be-damned attitude was nothing compared with the scene in Belmar, NJ, a beach popular with Staten Islanders and Brooklynites….
LAGOS APRIL 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Last month, residents of Kiryas Joel, a New York village of 35,000 Hasidic Jews roughly an hour’s drive from Manhattan, began hearing about a promising treatment for the coronavirus that had been rippling through their community. The source was Dr. Vladimir Zelenko, 46, a mild-mannered family doctor with offices near the village….
LAGOS MARCH 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The coronavirus pandemic has slammed New York City so hard that health care workers are using forklifts to load dead bodies into refrigerated trucks, according to a viral video. The 5-minute and 32-second clip posted to YouTube shows medical officials helping to load the corpses in body bags into the mobile morgue…
LAGOS MARCH 16TH (NEWSRANGERS) – Bars, restaurants, theaters and movie houses in New York and Los Angeles were ordered to shut down and several nations in South and Central America closed their borders in the latest moves around the world to combat the spread of the coronavirus. The U.S. Federal Reserve slashed interest rates in…
LAGOS MARCH 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Big Apple conference about the coronavirus has been canceled – because of the coronavirus, according to a report. The Council of Foreign Relations was due to hold a roundtable titled “Doing Business Under Coronavirus” on Friday, but decided to cancel it amid fears that it could lead to a spread of…
LAGOS DECEMBER 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Meet 29-year-old Nigerian, Beroro Efekoro, who has just been elected as an Albany County legislator in the state of New York. Beroro Efekoro achieved this feat 11 years after he relocated from Nigeria to the popular American state with his father and siblings. He moved to Albany to pursue a degree in…