LAGOS FEBRUARY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ghana has become the first African country to introduce the use of locally made ankara fabrics as school uniforms. Ghanaian education system took the bold step to endorse and implement the use of Ankara Uniforms. This has been a step dubbed as an effort to celebrate and embrace the African heritage. In…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has told African leaders to see COVID-19 pandemic as an impetus and not hindrance to the full implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). Obasanjo said the delay of the full implementation occasioned by the outbreak of the pandemic should give leaders “an opportunity to…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 66-year-old woman was arrested near the White House over the weekend after police found a loaded handgun and a handwritten letter for Joe Biden inside her car, TMZ reports. The woman reportedly drove up to a security checkpoint in downtown Washington D.C. Saturday night with a man sitting in the passenger…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Joe Ligon was just 15 when he joined a pack of drunk teenagers on a robbery and assault spree that left two people dead and six others stabbed. Illiterate and poor, Ligon pled guilty to two counts of first-degree murder, though he long claimed he didn’t take part in the murders. He…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Fifteen Turkish sailors kidnapped by pirates last month in the Gulf of Guinea arrived back in Turkey on Sunday and the ship’s captain described how they faced death threats and were held in a forest during their three-week ordeal. The sailors hugged relatives as they arrived before dawn at Istanbul Airport, where…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Donald Trump thanked Senate Republicans – most of them – for his impeachment acquittal on Saturday, and proclaimed that the political movement he began with his 2016 election has “only just begun.” “We have so much work ahead of us, and soon we will emerge with a vision for a bright, radiant, and limitless…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-China’s broadcasting regulator has banned the BBC World Service from airing there, according to a report in Chinese state media. The news follows a move by Britain’s communications regulator last week to strip the state-run China global television network of its broadcast license in the U.K. According to the state news agency…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A special tribunal in Bangladesh’s capital on Wednesday sentenced to death eight Islamic militants for the 2015 killing of a publisher of books on secularism and atheism. Anti-Terrorism Special Tribunal Judge Majibur Rahman announced the verdicts in a packed courtroom in the presence of six defendants. Another two, including sacked military official…