LAGOS FEBRUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria is set to repatriate 9, 800 refugees from Cameroon to Nigeria as representatives have arrived in Marwa, in Cameroon to complete the move. The 9,800 refugees are those in the first phase of the repatriation from Cameroon from the 46,000 Nigerians taking refuge in Minawao camp in the country. According to…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Soccer star Jérôme Boateng’s model ex-girlfriend Kasia Lenhardt has passed away at the age of 25. According to Bild, who cited the Berlin police, the former contestant of Germany’s Next Top Model was found dead in a home on Tuesday, Feb. 9. “Yesterday at around 8.30 p.m., there was a police operation…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An overwhelming majority of Senate Republicans voted Tuesday against proceeding with the impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump — signaling for a second time that his conviction is all but impossible. The 56-44 vote to try Trump for allegedly inciting the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol by his supporters followed…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The largest hospital in Greece will take part in the trials of an Israeli treatment for COVID-19, following the meeting between Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Monday. During the press conference with Mitsotakis, Netanyahu held up a vial that he called a “miracle drug,”…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Vaccines are claimed to be the biggest hope in getting out of the coronavirus pandemic and returning to normality. However, they may not be the only solution, or even the best one. In Israel, Professor Nadri Aber has invented a miracle inhaler which can cure COVID-19 in just five days. His inhaler…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Having survived the murky waters of politics in Nigeria, where her mother was kidnapped to send her a message, and rising to number two at the World Bank, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala should have no trouble dealing with international trade negotiators in her new job at the World Trade Organisation (WTO). The 66-year-old will…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The South African Revenue Service (SARS) is reportedly sending taxpayers audit requests, asking those who have held cryptocurrencies to disclose their trading activity. SARS has sent the requests to a number of taxpayers who, in turn, contacted professional tax services firm Tax Consulting South Africa, reported local IT news site MyBroadband on…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Thousands of people took to the streets of Yangon on Saturday to denounce this week’s coup and demand the release of elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi despite a blockade on the internet by the junta. In an upwelling of anger in the country’s largest city protesters chanted, “Military dictator, fail, fail;…