LAGOS DECEMBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)- As Ghanaians began voting on Monday (December 7), an issue at the front of many minds is the economy. The West African economic powerhouse this year suffered its first quarterly economic contraction in nearly four decades and the two main candidates for the presidency are both offering a recovery. Incumbent President…
LAGOS DECEMBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Tabaré Vázquez, an Uruguayan oncologist who rose from poverty to win two terms as the country’s first socialist president, died Dec. 6 at home in Montevideo, the capital. He was 80. Dr. Vázquez announced last year that he had lung cancer, a disease he had dedicated much of his life to fighting. His…
LAGOS DECEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A North Korean citizen was publicly executed by authorities for violating “emergency quarantine measures,” according to Radio Free Asia. The November firing squad shooting of a man accused of smuggling with his Chinese business partners was ordered in an effort to scare other citizens into strict compliance with the totalitarian nation’s emergency…
LAGOS DECEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)- Here’s a head-scratcher: The use of cash has been declining for years in Britain, but demand for banknotes is skyrocketing. Nobody is quite sure where the money is going. A group of UK lawmakers said on Friday as much as £50 billion ($67.4 billion) in cash was “missing,” and it urged…
LAGOS DECEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs voted on Wednesday to remove cannabis and cannabis resin from a category of the world’s most dangerous drugs, which could impact the global medical marijuana industry. The Vienna-based UN agency said in a statement that its 53 member states had voted 27-25, with one abstention, to…
LAGOS DECEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Donald Trump on Wednesday voiced his concerns about the prospect of being prosecuted by New York officials after he leaves the White House. He made the remarks in 46-minute speech that he videotaped and posted on Facebook. “Now I hear that these same people that failed to get me in Washington…
LAGOS DECEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Hundreds of Ethiopian immigrants arrived on Thursday to a festive ceremony at Israel’s international airport, as the government took a step toward carrying out its pledge to reunite hundreds of families split between the two countries. Some 300 people landed on the Ethiopian Airlines flight, with many waving flags or stopping to…
LAGOS DECEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former French president Valery Giscard d’Estaing, who led his country into a new modern era and onto a firmly pro-European path, died late Wednesday of Covid-19, his family said. Giscard, who had been in hospital several times in the last months for heart problems, died “surrounded by his family” at the family…