LAGOS JULY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-All eyes were on Cour De’appal De Cotonou, Benin Republic, yesterday, for the arraignment of Yoruba Nation agitator, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, fondly called Sunday Igboho, since his arrest on Monday night. Hordes of his supporters had since morning trooped to the court in anticipation of his appearance. The environment got tension-soaked as…
LAGOS JULY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Republic of Benin has resisted Nigeria’s attempts to hastily extradite the Yoruba nation activist, Sunday Adeyemo, also known as Sunday Igboho, to the headquarters of the Department of State Services in Abuja. The PUNCH gathered that the Federal Government planned to extradite the activist on Wednesday (yesterday), but Benin Republic insisted…
LAGOS JULY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The death toll from recent riots in South Africa has risen to 276, and police are investigating 168 cases for murder, a cabinet minister said on Wednesday. The unrest started as protests over former president Jacob Zuma’s jailing two weeks ago in his home province of KwaZulu-Natal. But it quickly escalated into…
LAGOS JULY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A dispute between Nigerian leaders could jeopardise plans for the return of some of Africa’s most famous artifacts, the Benin Bronzes, which were looted during the colonial era and are now mainly in Western museums, as writer Barnaby Phillips reports. The Bronzes, thousands of metal sculptures and ivory carvings, were seized from…
LAGOS JULY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The leader of Tanzania’s main opposition party Chadema and other members were arrested early Wednesday ahead of a planned conference to demand constitutional reforms, the party said. Freeman Mbowe and 10 Chadema members were rounded up in the dead of night in the northwestern port city of Mwanza, it said on Twitter….
LAGOS JULY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The corruption trial of former South African president Jacob Zuma, who is currently in prison, has been postponed to August 10 as it is decided whether he must be physically present in the courtroom or can appear via video from where he is in detention. Zuma asked that his trial be postponed…
LAGOS JULY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Two armed men, including one who wielded a knife, attacked Mali’s interim president Assimi Goita on Tuesday in the great mosque in the capital Bamako, an AFP journalist saw. The attack took place during prayers for the Islamic festival of Eid al-Adha. Goita has since been taken from the scene, according to…
LAGOS JULY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Three men died in the French southern city of Marseille on Saturday when a fire broke out in a public housing building where they were squatting, officials said. A two-year-old and an adult were also seriously hurt in the fire at the building, where migrants from Nigeria are known to squat, a…