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…