LAGOS OCTOBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The United States Consulate General in Lagos has announced a call for applications for the 2020 Academy for Women Entrepreneurs (AWE), a U.S. Government initiative that supports women entrepreneurs around the world. For the second annual AWE, 120 female entrepreneurs from across southern Nigeria will be selected to receive virtual and in-person…
LAGOS OCTOBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The United States has explained why it is against the election of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as the next director-general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). In a statement issued by the office of the US trade representative on Wednesday, the world power said the WTO is in dire need of reform and must…
LAGOS OCTOBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The World Trade Organization’s bid to select a new leader was plunged into uncertainty on Wednesday after the United States rejected the Nigerian woman proposed as the global trade watchdog’s next director-general. Just six days before the U.S. election in which trade is a hot topic, Washington struck another blow at the…
LAGOS OCTOBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Seven persons believed to be Nigerians have been arrested in the United Kingdom on suspicion of seizing control of an oil ship, Nave Andromeda. According to the BBC, the stowaways are believed to have boarded the Southampton-bound ship in Lagos on October 5, 2020 in search of asylum. However, as the ship approached the…
LAGOS OCTOBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Anti-Trump protesters hurled eggs and insults at supporters of the president — including former mayor Rudy Giuliani — as they rolled through Manhattan in a convoy on Sunday. VVideo posted on Twitter shows a flag-draped pro-Trump caravan — identified online as a Jews for Trump demonstration — led by Giuliani being bombarded…
LAGOS OCTOBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A FLIGHT travelling from Heathrow to Abuja, the capital of Nigeria, has been forced to return to London after an emergency was declared on air. Flight Radar 24 retrieved data showing the plane returning to Britain from France. The aircraft had been flying for about 42 minuted before it was forced to…
LAGOS OCTOBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Pope Francis on Sunday named 13 new cardinals, including Washington D.C. Archbishop Wilton Gregory, who would become the first Black U.S. prelate to earn the coveted red hat. In a surprise announcement from his studio window to faithful standing below in St. Peter’s Square, Francis said the churchmen would be elevated to…
LAGOS OCTOBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Hundreds of Nigerians in Berlin, Germany, and London, the United Kingdom protested against police brutality, extrajudicial killing, and bad governance in their home country. During the protest on Saturday, the Nigerians displayed placards with different inscriptions conveying their displeasures. AFP reports that around 500 demonstrators took to the streets of London. Black-clad…