LAGOS DECEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Online publishers under the aegis of the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP) have bemoaned the death of their member, Mr Ben Bright-Mkpuma, publisher of Watchdog Reporters. Bright-Mkpuma, aged 52, died on Christmas Day in his sleep after battling kidney failure for five years. He was certified dead at Zenith Medical Centre,…
LAGOS DECEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Israel on Sunday evening entered its third national lockdown since the start of the pandemic to beat back a resurgence of COVID-19. The lockdown began at 5 p.m. Sunday evening. Although declared to be two weeks with an option to extend, health officials have already warned it will likely go on for…
LAGOS DECEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Trump signed the long-awaited $900 billion second coronavirus pandemic relief bill into law on Sunday night, sending aid to millions of Americans and narrowly averting a government shutdown. Trump had threatened not to sign the bill if it did not increase the $600 stimulus checks to $2,000, as well as repeal…
LAGOS DECEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Reuters cameraman, Kumerra Gemechu, was arrested in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa on Thursday and will be kept in custody for at least two weeks, his family said. He has not been charged. No reason was provided to the family for Thursday’s arrest, and police did not respond to Reuters’ requests…
LAGOS DECEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The man believed to be responsible for the Christmas Day bombing that tore through downtown Nashville blew himself up in the explosion, and appears to have acted alone, federal officials said Sunday. Investigators used DNA and other evidence to link the man, identified as Anthony Quinn Warner, to the mysterious explosion but…
LAGOS DECEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In a letter dated January 6, 1984, and addressed to the then UK Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, Nigeria’s incumbent President, Muhammadu Buhari, then a Maj-General, listed reasons that necessitated the 1984 coup in which he emerged the Head of State. The bloodless coup which upstaged the democratic government of Alhaji Shehu Shagari…