LAGOS FEBRUARY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Donald Trump thanked Senate Republicans – most of them – for his impeachment acquittal on Saturday, and proclaimed that the political movement he began with his 2016 election has “only just begun.” “We have so much work ahead of us, and soon we will emerge with a vision for a bright, radiant, and limitless…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-China’s broadcasting regulator has banned the BBC World Service from airing there, according to a report in Chinese state media. The news follows a move by Britain’s communications regulator last week to strip the state-run China global television network of its broadcast license in the U.K. According to the state news agency…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A special tribunal in Bangladesh’s capital on Wednesday sentenced to death eight Islamic militants for the 2015 killing of a publisher of books on secularism and atheism. Anti-Terrorism Special Tribunal Judge Majibur Rahman announced the verdicts in a packed courtroom in the presence of six defendants. Another two, including sacked military official…
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…
