LAGOS OCTOBER18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-New audio confirms that Washington Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi was tortured and killed inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, the New York Times reported on Wednesday. The Times cited Turkish media, which they said obtained the gruesome evidence. “They severed his fingers during an interrogation and later beheaded and dismembered him,” the paper…
LAGOS OCTOBER 12TH (NESRANGERS)-A well-known Manhattan clinical psychologist and author who was a vocal champion of women and animals hanged herself inside her Sutton Place home, authorities said Thursday. Stacey Radin, 52, was discovered by her husband inside the bathroom of their fifth-floor apartment on Sutton Place near East 58th Street around 10:45 p.m. Wednesday,…
LAGOS OCTOBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The United States Consulate General in Lagos in collaboration with U-Live Africa on Friday night co-hosted the Major Lazer Sound System Concert at the Hard Rock Beach on Victoria Island. Major Lazer, the American electronic dance music group, comprising Diplo, Jillionaire, and Walshy Fire, were in Nigeria as part of a broader…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The United States Of America has promised to support Nigeria in its effort to develop the huge potential of its economy and of its human capital. U.S. Consulate Public Affairs Officer Russell Brooks who made disclosure today in Magodo, Lagos during EducationUSA Annual College Fair said order to to achieve its ambition,…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The US Government says it anticipates processing up to 310,000 refugees and asylum seekers in 2019. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the country proposed resettling up to 30,000 refugees under the new refugee ceiling as well as processing more than 280,000 asylum seekers. Pompeo said they would join the over…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-China will respond if the United States takes any new steps on trade, the foreign ministry said on Monday, after President Donald Trump warned he was ready to slap tariffs on virtually all Chinese imports into the United States. On Friday, Trump said he was ready to levy additional taxes on practically…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria parents, Titilayo and Kehinde Omosebi, have been arrested by the Reedsburg Police in Wisconsin, US, after their son, Ayanfe, starved to death during a religious fast. According to the Facebook page of Reedsburg Police, the father of the deceased, Kehinde walked into the police station to report that his son had…
LAGOS AUGUST 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A civil rights organisation under the aegis of Coalition for Nigeria Movement (CMN), on Wednesday warned President Muhammadu Buhari to cancel any reciprocal visit by President Donald Trump of United States that might have been planned or suggested in connection with his visit to US in April. According to the organisation, the…