LAGOS APRIL 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Legal analyst and TV personality Midwin Charles has died, her family confirmed with a post on her Twitter account on Tuesday. She was 47. “It is with a profoundly heavy heart and the deepest sadness that we announce the untimely passing of our beloved Midwin Charles,” the post reads. “She was known…
LAGOS APRIL 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he was “deeply concerned” by the violence, which has injured dozens of police officers in recent days as protesters burned cars and hurled petrol bombs at police. The violence comes amid growing frustration among many in the pro-British unionist community at new trade barriers between Northern…
LAGOS APRIL 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ivory Coast’s President Alassane Ouattara has confirmed his younger brother Tene Birahima Ouattara as minister of defence, part of a slate of new appointments announced on Tuesday. The new defence minister will have to contend with Islamist violence spilling over from Burkina Faso in the north, and continue reforms that have calmed…
LAGOS APRIL 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Akon’s cryptocurrency construction plans won’t be limited to Senegal. The artist-turned-mogul told Uganda’s NBS that he plans to build a futuristic city in the country. The Ugandan government announced on Monday that it has allotted Akon one square mile of land for him to begin planning an Akon City in the country….
LAGOS APRIL 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Stephanie Nana, an evangelical Christian in Edmond, Oklahoma, refused to get a COVID-19 vaccine because she believed it contained “aborted cell tissue.” Nathan French, who leads a nondenominational ministry in Tacoma, Washington, said he received a divine message that God was the ultimate healer and deliverer: “The vaccine is not the savior.”…
LAGOS APRIL 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The UK police on Friday questioned a former presidential aide Reno Omokri over his protest against President Muhammadu Buhari in London tagged #HarassBuhariOutOfLondon. Buhari is in London on a medical trip. He is expected back in Nigeria in the second week of April. Mr Omokri, a vocal critic of the Buhari administration,…
LAGOS APRIL 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Egypt could be lining up a $1bn claim in damages after the 20,388 teu Ever Given giant container vessel caused a headline grabbing traffic jam in the Suez Canal for almost a week. Ossama Rabei, the head of Suez Canal Authority, told Egypt’s Sada ElBalad news channel he estimates the $1bn figure…
LAGOS APRIL 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A former Nigerian beauty queen and doctoral student in Philadelphia has been shot dead while sitting in her car in front of her family’s home, and now her parents are hiding out of fear for their lives. Najeebat Sule, 24, known to her loved ones as Najee, was killed shortly before 6pm…