LAGOS NOVEMBVER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A hooded gunman dressed entirely in black opened fire on a crowd at a country dance bar holding a weekly “college night” in Southern California, killing 12 people and sending hundreds fleeing including some who used bar stools to break windows and escape, authorities said Thursday. The gunman was later found dead…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At least 100 members of the migrant caravan travelling through Mexico in an attempt to reach the United States have been kidnapped by the Zetas cartel, according to human rights officials in the country. Fleeing gang violence and threats back home in Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador, thousands of the migrants travelling…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)—Cable News Network (CNN), has named a 2017 alumna of the United States government-sponsored International Visitors Leadership Program (IVLP), Ms. Abisoye Ajayi-Akinfolarin, as one of the Top 10 CNN Heroes of the Year. Ajayi-Akinfolarin’s organization, Pearls Africa Foundation, which she founded in 2012, assists girls from underserved communities in Nigeria gain relevant…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-—United States Consul General F. John Bray has called for increased investment in the education of the girl-child and greater political participation by women in Nigeria. Delivering the keynote address on the second day of the 17th Annual Conference of Women in Management, Business and Public Service (WIMBIZ), in Lagos on November…
LAGOS OCTOBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Donald Trump has announced he is going to terminate the right to citizenship for babies born on US soil to non-citizens. The US president, who is taking an increasingly hard-line stance on immigration, said the “process” to end birthright citizenship by executive order is underway, and denied such a fundamental change would…
LAGOS OCTOBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS) – Hundreds of Hondurans crossed a river into Mexico in a fresh wave of migrants heading to the United States on Monday as the United States said it would deploy 5,000 troops on its border with Mexico. Men, women and children crossed the Suchiate River from Guatemala into Mexico on rafts…
LAGOS OCTOBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)- A 150-year-old church in Wakefield, Mass., was engulfed in flames on Tuesday after being struck by lightning during a storm. Remarkably, the one thing to survive the blaze was a large painting of Jesus. The fire was first reported on Tuesday evening, when members of the church were meeting inside. Everyone…
LAGOS OCTOBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Yonsi Marilu had not heard about the threat from Donald Trump to shut the US border, but the news made little difference to her plans. When you have lived in a San Salvador neighbourhood where you can be killed by a gang simply for crossing into a rival’s turf, or where a…