LAGOS JUNE 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The plane carrying the security personnel and press crew of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa was detained due to the presence of “dangerous materials” and “undeclared persons” on board, the Polish Foreign Ministry said on Friday. The crew has been in Warsaw for the second day in a row due to alleged…
LAGOS APRIL 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Unknown gunmen stormed a house and killed 10 members of a family on Friday, in the latest mass shooting to rock crime-ridden South Africa. Police said seven women and three men were fatally wounded in Imbali, a township south of Pietermaritzburg in the southeastern province of KwaZulu-Natal. “According to initial police reports,…
LAGOS APRIL 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Three Nigerian men have been indicted by the United States Secret Service over an alleged $6 million scam. The US Justice Department said in a statement on Thursday that the three Nigerians identified as Kosi Goodness Simon-Ebo, age 29, James Junior Aliyu, aka “Old Soldier,” and “Ghost,” age 28 and Henry Onyedikachi…
LAGOS MARCH 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A South African pastor, Siva Moodley, has been buried 579 days after he died because his family was waiting for his resurrection. The South African News reports that Moodley’s body had been kept at a Johannesburg mortuary since his death on August 15, 2021. The 53-year-old Moodley proclaimed that he could raise…
LAGOS JANUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-City Power, an electricity distribution company in South Africa, has cut off power supply to the Nigerian consulate in Johannesburg over “unpaid bills”. On Wednesday, the DisCo said the consulate was owing at least R600,000 (about $35,000). “We are on our 2nd day of revenue collection drive around Alexandra Service Delivery Centre(SDC)….
LAGOS JANUARY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The NCDC-led COVID-19 Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) is monitoring COVID-19 trends in China, the United States of America (USA), the United Kingdom (UK), South Africa, India, and other countries with a high volume of traffic to and from Nigeria. This includes the resurgence of COVID-19 in China following the relaxation of the…
LAGOS JANUARY RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Football superstar Cristiano Ronaldo made a slip of the tongue over his megabucks new deal on Tuesday when he seemed to say he had moved to South Africa rather than Saudi Arabia, home of his latest club Al Nassr. “It’s not the end of my career to come to South Africa,” he…
LAGOS DECEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria has been listed among African countries whose citizens can now apply for qualified teacher status through the Teaching Regulation Agency in the United Kingdom, from February 2023. Other countries to benefit include Ghana, Hong Kong, India, Jamaica, Singapore, South Africa, Ukraine and Zimbabwe. A publication early December on the UK Government’s…