LAGOS JANUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The European Union has joined a growing number of international voices calling for a probe into Ugandan election abuses and violence that left more than 40 people dead in the lead up to the polls. Opposition candidates were harassed by security forces, the media was suppressed by the government, and observers’ offices…
LAGOS JANUARY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Some 21 bricks of cocaine hidden in banana shipments ended up at grocery shops in Canada following a bungled drug-trafficking operation, authorities have confirmed. A local store owner in Kelowna, a small town in Central Okanagan, British Columbia province, alerted authorities after finding 12 packages of what appeared to be cocaine among…
LAGOS JANUARY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Jackson Mthembu, a minister and presidential advisor who was the public face of South Africa’s fight against Covid, has died from the virus, the presidency said Thursday. “It is with deep sorrow and shock that we announce that minister in the presidency Jackson Mthembu passed away earlier today from Covid-related complications,” President…
LAGOS JANUARY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Newly inaugurated US President Joe Biden has reversed a Donald Trump policy that restricted the granting of immigrant visas to Nigerians. In January 2020, Trump had expanded curbs on immigration to include six more countries, including Nigeria. But the Biden administration, which campaigned partly on a message of diversity, is seeking to…
LAGOS JANUARY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Uganda has moved to clamp down on social media use in the country even as its diplomatic relations with the US have taken a bad turn after a tense and disputed election. On Monday (Jan. 18), internet services were restored after a shutdown imposed just ahead of polls opening on Jan. 14…
LAGOS JANUARY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Joe Biden has taken over as the 46th President of the United States of America after he took oath of office. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts conducted the swearing-in ceremony as Biden placed his hand on a family Bible. The ceremony took place on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol,…
LAGOS JANUARY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Eric Trump said he will “never forget Buckingham Palace” as he looked back on his father’s four years in office after a tearful farewell ceremony. The president’s second eldest son said it had been the honour of his life to have had a “front row seat to the most remarkable and consequential…
Alibaba Group founder Jack Ma made his first appearance since October on Wednesday when he spoke to a group of teachers by video, allaying concerns about his unusual absence from public life and sending shares in the e-commerce giant surging. Speculation over Ma’s whereabouts has swirled in the wake of news this month that he…