LAGOS MAY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has appealed to the European countries and global financial institutions to consider reducing the devastating effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on Nigeria and other African economies by restructuring debt portfolios and providing complete debt relief. Mr Buhari made the call at the Financing Africa Summit held at the Grande…
LAGOS MAY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Israeli military has been bombarding the Gaza strip for more than a week, launching attacks on residential and media buildings, refugee camps, and important infrastructure. The heaviest exchange of fire in years – sparked by unrest in Jerusalem – has killed 220 in Gaza, including 63 children, and 12 in Israel….
LAGOS MAY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Protesters took to the streets in London on Saturday to demonstrate against the ongoing violence in the Middle East. (May 15)Thousands of demonstrators marched from Hyde Park to the Israeli embassy in Kensington, after a week in which at least 126 people have been killed in Gaza and seven people have been…
LAGOS MAY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The student reporter who gained national acclaim when he interviewed President Barack Obama at the White House in 2009 has died of natural causes, his family says. Damon Weaver was 23 when he died May 1, his sister, Candace Hardy, told the Palm Beach Post. Further details were not released. He had…
LAGOS MAY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 120 retired US generals and admirals have published an open letter suggesting that Joe Biden was not legitimately elected as President and questioning his fitness for office. The letter, signed by 124 retired members of the armed forces calling themselves ‘Flag Officers 4 America’, said that America is “in…
LAGOS MAY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian churches have continued to receive widespread recognition with the latest coming from the daughter of renowned gospel singer, Cece Winans. In a video currently making waves on the internet, Ashley Philips who got married in September 2017 and recently gave birth to a baby boy, has revealed how statements of confession…
LAGOS MAY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-George Weah Jr, the son of the Liberian president George Weah, has been handed a six-month suspended sentence for disturbing the peace and noise pollution at his home just outside Paris. “This is a first warning but there won’t be a second,” said Judge Pascal Humbert-Massa at Versailles criminal court. Weah’s neighbours took him…
LAGOS MAY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The United States has said there is no plan to relocate its Africa Command from its current base in Germany to Nigeria or any other part of Africa despite the worsening state of insecurity in the region. The US gave the response barely two weeks after the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari…