LAGOS MARCH 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Britain’s Prince Philip, the 99-year-old husband of Queen Elizabeth II, left a London hospital early Tuesday after heart surgery and 28 days’ treatment — his longest-ever stay. Philip — who is due to turn 100 in June — was photographed looking pale and gaunt as he was driven away from the private…
LAGOS MARCH 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Children as young as 11 are being beheaded in Mozambique, UK-based aid group Save the Children said on Tuesday, as part of an Islamist insurgency that has killed thousands and forced many magnitudes more from their homes. Save the Children said it had spoken to displaced families who described “horrifying scenes” of…
LAGOS MARCH 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Many Nigerians illegally staying in Germany will leave Frankfurt for Lagos on Tuesday, March 16, 2021, as part of massive deportation plans by the German government, the Network for Critical Migration Consciousness (NfCMC) has announced. The upcoming charter deportation operation will be the first for this year since the initial plan for…
LAGOS MARCH 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Pirates have kidnapped 15 crew members from a chemical tanker in the Gulf of Guinea after boarding the vessel off the coast of Benin, the ship’s Dutch owners said on Friday. The latest incident of high-seas piracy happened on Thursday afternoon around 210 nautical miles (389 kilometres) south of Cotonou when pirates…
LAGOS MARCH 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Denmark and Iceland have both suspended use of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine because of concerns surrounding fatal blood clots. Denmark’s health minister Magnus Heunicke wrote in a tweet, translated from Danish: “The health authorities have, due to precautionary measures, suspended vaccination with AstraZeneca following a signal of a possible serious side effect in…
LAGOS MARCH 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Pressure is building on the Tanzanian government to disclose the whereabouts of President John Pombe Magufuli after reports that the controversial East African leader had left the country to seek Covid-19 treatment abroad. Mr Magufuli, who has regularly denied that coronavirus is present in Tanzania and recommended herbal remedies over masks despite…
LAGOS MARCH 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ivory Coast Prime Minister Hamed Bakayoko, who was seen as a possible successor to President Alassane Ouattara, has died in Freiburg in southwestern Germany, two days after his 56th birthday, the government said on Wednesday. A former media executive who turned to politics, Bakayoko acted as a negotiator and intermediary between warring…
LAGOS MARCH 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Catholic Pontiff, Pope Francis, has urged Christians in Nigeria to stop being sectional, and take the moral high ground. Pope Francis, who took a swipe at churches that had opposed the appointment of Most Revd. Peter Okpalaeke as Bishop on the basis of his dialect, urged Christian communities in the country to…