LAGOS DECEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-“Archbishop Tutu was a towering global figure for peace and an inspiration to generations across the world. During the darkest days of apartheid, he was a shining beacon for social justice, freedom and non-violent resistance. … Although Archbishop Tutu’s passing leaves a huge void on the global stage, and in our hearts,…
LAGOS DECEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A Madagascan minister was one of two survivors to have swum about 12 hours to shore after their helicopter crashed off the island’s north-east coast, authorities said. A search was continuing for two other passengers after Monday’s crash, the cause of which was not immediately clear, police and port authorities said. Serge…
LAGOS DECEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Gov. Chuck Robb’s Virginia mansion went up in flames late Tuesday. Firefighters arrived at the two-alarm fire on the 600 block of Chain Bridge Road in McLean, Va., at 11:30 p.m. The fire had spread throughout the home’s first floor. Two people escaped the home and were transported to the hospital…
LAGOS DECEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon, D-Pa., was carjacked at gunpoint in a park in Philadelphia on Wednesday afternoon, her spokeswoman said in a statement. The incident occurred around 2:45 p.m. at FDR Park in South Philadelphia, where Scanlon had been attending a meeting earlier, said the spokeswoman, Lauren Cox. Scanlon was unharmed, Cox…
LAGOS DECEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A brawl has broken out in Ghana’s parliament during a late-night session over a contentious government-proposed levy on electronic transactions. MPs shoved, pushed and threw punches at each other, while others tried to stop the fighting. The chaos started after opposition MPs rushed forward to prevent Deputy Speaker Joseph Osei Owusu from…
LAGOS DECEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A 75-year-old man, (name withheld) who arrived Nigeria through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos aboard a flight operated by Delta Air from the US this morning has died at the airport. The man was found dead shortly after the aircraft touched down and taxied to the avio bridge from where he…
LAGOS DECEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Leftist candidate, Gabriel Boric has won Chile’s presidential election to become the country’s youngest ever leader. In what was expected to be a tight race, the 35-year-old former student protest leader defeated his far-right rival José Antonio Kast by 10 points. Mr Boric told supporters he would look after democracy, promising curbs…
LAGOS DECEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Republic of Benin, Niger Republic and Togo made no payment for the electricity supplied to them from Nigeria in the second quarter of 2021, the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission has said. In its just released Second Quarter Report 2021, the NERC stated that the power firms of the three nations and…