LAGOS JANUARY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The United States has said it will take action against anti-democratic forces and human rights abusers in Uganda following Thursday’s general elections in the country. The U.S. position came in a statement by the Department of State through its spokesperson, Ms Morgan Ortagus, on Saturday. Ortagus said the government was “deeply troubled”…
LAGOS JANUARY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Twenty-three people died in Norway within days of receiving their first dose of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine with 13 of those deaths apparently related to the side effects of the shots, New York Post reported citing the health officials. All 13 were nursing home patients and at least 80 years old. Common…
LAGOS JANUARY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The coronavirus was found on ice cream produced in eastern China, prompting a recall of cartons from the same batch, according to the government. The Daqiaodao Food Co., Ltd. in Tianjin, adjacent to Beijing, was sealed and its employees were being tested for the coronavirus, a city government statement said. There was…
LAGOS JANUARY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-When Samah Idrees read about a woman being raped by a mob of armed men in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum, she was horrified but not surprised. Most shocking was the banality of the violence: it reminded her of all the other news she had read about all the other rapes in…
LAGOS JANUARY 16TH (NEWSANGERS)-Donald Trump Jr is wanted for questioning as part of an investigation into the alleged misuse of his father’s 2017 presidential inauguration funds. Washington DC attorney general Karl Racine said Mr Trump Jr had been notified of the request, which was sent after new evidence emerged in court filings earlier this week….
LAGOS JANUARY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Wine, who is also known as Robert Kyagulanyi, showed Reuters around his compound, where several armed men were seen through a fence communicating via radios. “I thought I should inform the world that our lives are in danger and should anything happen to us, at least we have had the opportunity while…
LAGOS JANUARY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Chinese American socialite who once rubbed elbows with Hillary Clinton plunged naked from her penthouse in Hong Kong while holding her 5-month-old daughter in her arms, leaving them both dead, according to reports. The horrific incident involving 34-year-old Lili Luo and her daughter, Aier, happened on Jan. 6 in Yau Ma…
LAGOS JANUARY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine on Friday claimed victory in a presidential election, rejecting early results which gave President Yoweri Museveni a wide lead as a “joke”. “I am very confident that we defeated the dictator by far. I call upon all Ugandans to reject the blackmail. We have certainly won the…