LAGOS JANUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Donald Trump pumped his fist and waved as he departed the White House on Marine One Wednesday for the last time as president, leaving behind a legacy of chaos and tumult and a nation bitterly divided. Four years after standing on stage at his own inauguration and painting a dire picture of…
LAGOS JANUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Zimbabwe’s foreign minister, Sibusiso Moyo, has died after contracting COVID-19, presidential spokesman George Charamba said on Wednesday. Moyo, a former army general who announced the military coup that led to the removal of the late long-serving leader Robert Mugabe in November 2017. Moyo died at a local hospital early on Wednesday, Charamba…
LAGOS JANUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Donald Trump’s daughter from his second of three marriages slipped the engagement announcement into a parting post on Instagram Tuesday, the day before her dad ends his polarizing single-term presidency. Tiffany, 27, said she plans to marry longtime boyfriend Michael Boulos, 23, the Lebanese-born businessman she reportedly met at Lindsay Lohan’s club…
LAGOS JANUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), has filed a complaint at the United Nations against Ugandan President, Yoweri Museveni, for illegally detaining his main opponent in the recently concluded Presidential election, Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine. Falana said in a statement on Tuesday that Bobi Wine had been denied access…
LAGOS JANUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ugandans are celebrating the resumption of internet services after a shutdown was imposed ahead of last week’s election. However, social media platforms remain blocked and are only accessible using Virtual Private Networks (VPN). President Yoweri Museveni, who won an unprecedented sixth term in office, had accused the platforms of being biased. Bobi…
LAGOS JANUARY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine’s party will challenge President Yoweri Museveni’s election victory. Speaking in a news conference on Sunday (January 17), National Unity Party’s Maathias Mpuuga also condemned what it called the house arrest of Wine and his wife. “We have evidence of ballot stuffing and other forms of election malpractice…
LAGOS JANUARY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Uganda’s government spokesman accused the United States on Tuesday of trying to subvert last week’s presidential elections after the U.S. ambassador attempted to visit an opposition leader being held under house arrest. The military surrounded the home of popstar-turned-legislator Bobi Wine, whose real name is Robert Kyagulanyi, shortly after he cast his…
LAGOS JANUARY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-First Lady Melania Trump, in a video, has given a “farewell message” to the United States, two days before the end of the term of President Donald Trump, her husband. “My fellow Americans, it has been the greatest honour of my life to serve as first lady of the United States,” said…