LAGOS MARCH 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Russian missiles continued to devastate major cities across Ukraine on Friday — as rescuers desperately tried to reach as many as 1,300 people feared trapped for two days below the rubble of a blown-up theater. The early-morning barrages included strikes on capital Kyiv, where at least one person was killed when six…
LAGOS MMARCH 17TH (NEWSRAGERS)-Russia warned the United States on Thursday that Moscow had the might to put the world’s pre-eminent superpower in its place and accused the West of stoking a wild Russophobic plot to tear Russia apart. Dmitry Medvedev, who served as president from 2008 to 2012 and is now deputy secretary of Russia’s…
LAGOS MARCH 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Force Commander/Acting Head of Mission for the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA), Major General Benjamin Olufemi Sawyerr has officially taken over from Ethiopia’s Major General Kefyalew Amde Tessema who has served the mission for close to two years. Major General Sawyerr took over on 15 March and will…
LAGOS MARCH 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Marina Ovsyannikova, the journalist who was detained after holding up an antiwar sign that read “They’re lying to you” during a live Russian state television broadcast, appeared in court on Tuesday. She was given a 30,000 rouble (£214) fine A news editor with Channel One, Ovsyannikova was seen on Monday carrying a poster…
LAGOS MARCH 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Authorities in the U.S. state of Georgia have dissolved Springfield Aviation Company LLC allegedly used for bank fraud and money laundering by the CEO and Chairman of Air Peace, Allen Onyema. The company, incorporated and based in Georgia State, is said to have been deficient in filing its annual registration, after the…
LAGOS MARCH 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Russia’s foreign ministry on Tuesday said US President Joe Biden and a dozen other top officials had been banned from entering the country in a reciprocal response to US sanctions. The measure, which also applies to Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, “is the consequence of the extremely…
LAGOS MARCH 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall will attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) which takes place in Kigali, Rwanda during the week of 20th June. “As the world works to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic, and in this Jubilee year, it is more important…
Former President Barack Obama has tested for positive for COVID-19, he announced on Twitter on Sunday. Former First Lady Michelle Obama has tested negative so far, Obama said. “I just tested positive for COVID. I’ve had a scratchy throat for a couple days, but am feeling fine otherwise,” the former president tweeted. “Michelle and I…