http://ift.tt/2t1m7bW LAGOS JULY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An American tourist was beaten to death on Friday after a fight erupted at a bar on an island in Greece, and at least eight people have been arrested in connection with his killing, according to local police. Bakari Henderson, a 22-year-old recent graduate of the University of Arizona, was at…
http://ift.tt/2tVDoId Kanu proponent of secession LAGOS JULY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Mr. Paul Thomas Arkwright, said on Friday that the British government was not supporting those calling for the secession in Nigeria. The United Kingdom Government which has denied insinuation that it is in support of agitation for the break-up of Nigeria,…
http://ift.tt/2uDPZwQ iafra,Nnamdi Kanu, LAGOS JULY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Yarima Shettima, the President of the Arewa Youth Coalition, has threatened to drag IPOD leader Nnamdi Kanu for ‘terrorizing the country’. Shettima, in an interview with Tribune, said that IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu, must not go unpunished for his act of creating confusion. “We will go as far to…
http://ift.tt/2uDTWSg Lagos LAGOS JULY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Some communities in Lagos State are experiencing flooding as a result of heavy downpour which lasted for several hours. One of the worst hit is the Lekki area, along Lekki-Ajah highway, Lagos. The residents are complaining that the flood is so massive and are unable to leave the area. The…
http://ift.tt/2tVbRX2 LAGOS JULY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Los Angeles hit a record high of 98 degrees Saturday, as a wildfire in northern Santa Barbara County continued to burn out of control and the region suffered through the third day of a blistering heat wave. Downtown Los Angeles’ record high temperature beat out the 131-year-old record of 95 degrees…
http://ift.tt/2uD5Mwf LAGOS JULY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A group of communities in Nigeria’s Niger River delta demanded a stake in an oil block it said it was promised when Royal Dutch Shell Plc sold its share to a local company six years ago. The communities in the Gbaramatu district, near the southern oil town of Warri, want 5…
http://ift.tt/2uBPvHS LAGOS JULY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Kayode Sanni, an illegal immigrant who headed a gang which used the identities of MPs, judges and police officers to con the taxpayer out of millions of pounds was jailed for more than five years. Sanni, 38, received a jail term of five years and three months for his part in…
http://ift.tt/2tX73jR LAGOS JULY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS) No fewer than ten people have been reported dead as a container fell from a trailer and compressed two full loaed commercial buses in Ojota motor park, Lagos. The trailer, according to available information, lost control as it moved near the buses, with the container falling on them. Only three…