LAGOS JANUARY 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-This was the day that President Joe Biden and his team had feared for more than three months, the day that relatively low-level attacks by Iranian proxy groups on U.S. troops in the Middle East turned deadly and intensified the pressure on the president to respond in kind. With three U.S. service…
LAGOS JANUARY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The military regimes in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger on Sunday announced their immediate withdrawal from the West African bloc ECOWAS, saying it has become a threat to member states. The leaders of the three Sahel nations issued a statement saying it was a “sovereign decision” to leave the Economic Community of…
LAGOS JANUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS) — The International Religious Freedom (IRF) Summit — the world’s premier annual gathering of religious freedom advocates and activists — will feature an on-site exhibit of artwork from two globally-renowned artists, Hannah Rose Thomas and Uğur Gallenkuş. Acclaimed British artist Hannah Rose Thomas, who uses techniques of traditional sacred art to…
LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian college student is believed to have fallen to his death from the 16th floor of a condominium in Batu Uban, Gelugor, last night while attempting to escape a police raid. The incident occurred around 6pm when the 37-year-old man’s residence was raided by Penang police’s narcotics criminal investigation department, Berita…
LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Moscow has accused Ukraine’s military of shooting down a plane, which it says was carrying 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war The plane came down near the Russian city of Belgorod, close to the Ukrainian border “On board were 65 captured Ukrainian army servicemen being transported for exchange, six crew members and three…
LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday said the United States is determined to remain a strong security partner for Nigeria, whose military is backed by the U.S., Britain and other allies in a long war against Islamist insurgents. Blinken also discussed challenges to democracy and security in the region during his…
LAGOS JANUARY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The World Bank estimates that improved access to Internet coverage over three years led to a seven per cent reduction in extreme poverty in Nigeria and Tanzania. The bank disclosed this in a new brief titled, “Digital transformation drives development in Africa.” It said Internet access also led to an increase of…
LAGOS JANUARY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Sierra Leone’s ex-president Ernest Bai Koroma left the West African country by plane and flew to Nigeria on Friday, two Reuters reporters said, after a court allowed him to travel abroad on medical grounds despite treason charges. On Jan. 3, 70-year-old Koroma was charged with four offences for his alleged role in…