LAGOS JUNE 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The United States, U.S, Government has condemned recent killings of civilians in Northern Nigeria by bandits In a statement on the State Department website on Tuesday, the US called on the Nigerian Government to hold those responsible to account and protect civilians. It reads, “We condemn the recent senseless and brazen killings…
LAGOS JUNE 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-British Prime Minister Boris Johnson‘s car was involved in a minor accident as he left the Houses of Parliament on Wednesday. As Johnson‘s car left Parliament to drive the short distance to Downing Street following the weekly session of Prime Minister’s Questions, a group of protesters ran towards the car, prompting it…
LAGOS JUNE 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Pablo Escobar’s crime partner and one of Colombia’s pioneering “cocaine cowboys” has been released after a long prison sentence in the U.S. and been deported to Germany, his lawyer said Tuesday. Carlos Lehder left on a flight for his new home in Berlin on Monday after being released from a U.S. prison…
LAGOS JUNE 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A weekend ambush on a military convoy in central Mali left 24 soldiers dead and an unspecified number missing, the army said Monday, blaming the assault on jihadists. In posts on social media, the army did not enumerate the missing but said eight soldiers escaped the attack on around a dozen vehicles…
LAGOS June 15th (NEWSRANGERS)-The bodies of Robert Fuller and Malcolm Harsch were found in California, 10 days and 50 miles apart. Their families are demanding deeper investigations. The families of two black men who were found hanged from trees in Southern California are asking the authorities to further investigate their deaths. The family of Robert…
LAGOS JUNE 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Burundian president died from the coronavirus, according to medics at the hospital where he was flown to following his death. The country’s government had announced Pierre Nkurunziza’s cause of death as from a heart attack. A medical source at the Karusi hospital where Nkurunziza died, has confirmed the president was in ‘respiratory…
LAGOS JUNE 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)- An Irish court has ordered Nigerian born blogger based in Ireland, Esther Esabod Aboderin to take down all defamatory posts on social media on Ooni of Ife, His Imperial Majesty, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, Ojaja II with immediate effect. According to Irish Times.ie, Ooni has dragged the Ireland-based blogger, Esther Esabod…
LAGOS JUNE 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ukraine’s first lady Olena Zelenska said on Friday she had tested positive for the novel coronavirus amid a rise in infections. Zelenska, 42, added that her husband, President Volodymyr Zelensky, and their two children tested negative. “Today I’ve received a positive COVID-19 test result,” she said on Facebook. On Thursday, Ukrainian authorities…