LAGOS NOVEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Key fings revealed that global net worth soared from $156 million in 2000 to $514 trillion in 2020, making the world wealthier than it was at any point in history. China accounted for nearly a third of the increase, the report from management consultancy firm McKinsey & Company stated. McKinsey analyzed the…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Washington on Wednesday removed Nigeria from its list of countries with religious freedom concerns, just a day before Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrives in the country as part of a tour of Africa. The omission drew a sharp rebuke from a U.S. government commission that had recommended the Biden administration keep…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Guinea’s junta leader Mamady Doumbouya said his country could “solve” its own problems, just days after the ECOWAS grouping of West African states hardened its stance against Conakry. The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has suspended Guinea from the bloc and slapped sanctions against individual junta members and their families…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Scorpions in Egypt have stung three people to death in the southern city of Aswan after heavy storms brought them into the streets and homes. Some 450 more people were injured by scorpion stings, a health ministry official said. The hail and thunder storm in the area near the River Nile on…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The son and one-time heir apparent of late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi announced Sunday his candidacy for the country’s presidential election next month, Libya’s election agency said. Seif al-Islam, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court on charges of crimes against humanity related to the 2011 uprising, submitted his candidacy papers…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nine junior high school students drowned , after two canoes capsized on a river in the Northern Region of Ghana, the Police confirmed on Saturday. Bernard Baba Ananga, Northern Regional Crime Officer of the Ghana Police Service, told Xinhua that about 31 students were on the canoes, which they used to cross…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A court in military-ruled Myanmar on Friday sentenced detained U.S. journalist Danny Fenster to 11 years in prison after finding him guilty on several charges, including incitement for allegedly spreading false or inflammatory information. Fenster, the managing editor of the online magazine Frontier Myanmar, was also found guilty of contacting illegal organizations…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland has appealed to world leaders attending the UN Climate Change Conference COP26 to close the gap in ongoing negotiations this week in Glasgow, with millions of lives and livelihoods on the line in climate-vulnerable countries. Secretary-General Scotland delivered her statement today to the resumed high-level segment of the…