LAGOS MAY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)A South Korean appellate court judge who presided over a high-profile case involving former first lady Kim Keon-hee was found dead early Wednesday morning, police said. Shin Jong-oh, who had overturned a lower court’s not guilty verdict and imposed a harsher sentence on Kim, was discovered with severe injuries in a…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former world champion boxer Ricky Hatton has died at the age of 46, just weeks after announcing a comeback to the sport. According to the Daily Mail, the Manchester native was found dead at his home in Greater Manchester on Sunday, September 14, with a police cordon currently in place around the…
LAGOS DECEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-WRESTLING legend Rey Misterio Snr has died aged 66 – just weeks after a family tragedy. Misterio Snr, real name Miguel Ángel López Días, was the uncle of WWE hall of fame entrant Rey Mysterio. The masked luchador started wrestling in 1976 and officially retired in 2009. Mexican wrestling company Lucha Libre…
LAGOS AUGUST 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At least 170 people have died and more than 200,000 others are displaced following weeks of flooding in Africa’s most populous country, a spokesperson for Nigeria’s disaster management agency told CNN Tuesday. Northern Nigeria has been hit hardest by the floods, according to Manzo Ezekiel, who speaks for the National Emergency Management…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)– Close to 6,000 fighters from the Boko Haram Islamist insurgent group in northeast Nigeria have surrendered in recent weeks, the Nigerian armed forces said on Thursday, attributing the development to the military’s counter-insurgency efforts. Some 350,000 people have died in the conflict between Boko Haram and the Nigerian army since it…