LAGOS APRIL 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Russia plans to end restrictions on flights to and from 52 countries after April 9, part of its plans to reduce measures taken to slow the spread of COVID-19, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said on Monday. Russia plans to resume flights to and from Argentina, South Africa and other “friendly countries”, Mishustin…
LAGOS JANUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Dutch police say they have found a stowaway alive in the wheel section of a plane that landed at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport from South Africa. Flights from Johannesburg to Amsterdam take about 11 hours, with the cargo plane believed to have made one stop, in Nairobi, Kenya. It is very unusual for…
LAGOS JANUARY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Authorities on Tuesday said 82 lives had been lost in a spate of severe summer weather that has seen South Africa pummeled by persistent downpours for days. The Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs said most of the deaths were due to drownings and lightening strikes. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, the head…
LAGOS DECEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As South Africa celebrated the life of anti-apartheid hero Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who died on Sunday, one of his daughters recalled the day he saved a young man from being burned alive by an angry mob as one of her proudest memories. In 1985, the country was in a state of emergency…
LAGOS DECEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Report coming from Soweto in South Africa has revealed that a 10-year old girl has been impregnated by an unknown man in her area. Although, much is not known about how it happened, but reactions have continue to trail the pregnancy of the girl in the social media. Below are some of…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The United States has restricted entry of travelers from South Africa and seven other countries as part of measures to contain the new Omicron. However, the new restriction does not ban United States citizens and lawful U.S residents. The order effective Monday, November 29, 2021, banned travelers from South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe,…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Three children, including a four-month-old baby boy, died after eating a packet of noodles on Sunday during a visit to relatives in New Brighton, in the Eastern Cape. Police spokesperson Colonel Priscilla Naidu said police are investigating an inquest following the deaths of the three children, Sinothando Ngwendu (11), Olwam Ngwendu (7),…
LAGOS OCTOBER 23RD (MEWSRANGERS)-An elephant has trampled a suspected poacher to death in South Africa’s famed Kruger National Park, a spokesman said Friday. The mangled body was discovered Thursday during an intelligence operation aimed at preventing poaching, Kruger spokesman Isaac Phaahla told AFP. But before any animals were harmed, an elephant stomped one poacher to…