LAGOS DECEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-At least five people have been killed, more than 1.1 million customers are without power and thousands of flights cancelled or delayed as a historic polar vortex swept the United States this holiday season. “Once-in-a-generation” Winter Storm Elliott is causing disruptions across the map with 60 per cent of Americans under winter…
LAGOS DECEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Five years after a drug company billionaire and his wife were found dead in their Toronto home, their family says they are now offering $35 million to help solve the grisly murders. Barry Sherman, who founded generic drugmaker Apotex Inc., and his wife, Honey, were found dead in their mansion on December 15, 2017. The…
LAGOS DECEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 12-year-old chess prodigy from Nigeria was granted asylum in America after racking up trophies while homeless in New York City. The family of chess master Tanitoluwa “Tani” Adewumi was officially given safe haven in the U.S. after fleeing Nigeria in 2017, The Washington Post reports. “It feels amazing, because it’s been…
LAGOS DECEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two police officers in coastal Mississippi were shot and killed early Wednesday by a woman who they had talked to for nearly 30 minutes in a motel parking lot, authorities said. The woman also died. Amy Anderson, 43, was sitting in a parked SUV with a female child when the officers were…
LAGOS DECEMBER 13TH (MEWSRANGERS)-More than three decades after a bomb brought down Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing everyone aboard, a former Libyan intelligence official accused of making the explosive appeared Monday in federal court, charged with an act of international terrorism. The extradition of Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi marked a…
By VALENTINE OBIENYEM LAGOS DECEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-It is no longer news that Mr. Peter Obi is the number one news in Nigeria. His popularity is indeed beyond compare. It is evident everywhere, especially when he travelled to the states of America such that any person who seeks to deny that fact is being untruthful to…
LAGOS DECEMBER 3RD (NEWSRAGERS)-Presidential Candidate of Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi, has described Nigeria as a country that was needlessly ran down through cumulative effects of bad governance. He says it could only be salvaged through collective efforts. Obi spoke on Friday to airport correspondents at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos. While answering questions,…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-It was confusion aboard a Southwest Airline plane when a crazed woman attempted to open the door mid-air. Only God can save Agbegninou now that she tried her best to obey her god. Elom whose last name is Benin Republic, then started whacking her head on the plane floor, claiming “Jesus told…
