LAGOS OCTOBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Trump released a videotaped statement Saturday from his hospital suite at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, assuring the nation that he was feeling better since being admitted the day before, and that he believed he would return to campaign trail “soon.” “I came here, wasn’t feeling so well. I feel…
LAGOS OCTOBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The editor of a Russian independent news site died on Friday after setting herself on fire following a police raid in a probe targeting an opposition group, her website confirmed. The news site Koza.Press in the industrial city of Nizhny Novgorod reported that its editor-in-chief Irina Slavina had “set herself on fire…
LAGOS OCTOBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-News that the world’s most powerful man was infected with the world’s most notorious disease drew instant reactions of shock, sympathy, undisguised glee and, of course, the ever-present outrage and curiosity surrounding everything about President Donald Trump. Trump’s announcement Friday, on Twitter, that he and first lady Melania Trump tested positive for…
LAGOS OCTOBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-President Trump announced on Twitter early Friday morning that he and First Lady Melania Trump have “tested positive for COVID-19.” “Tonight, @FLOTUS and I tested positive for COVID-19. We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately. We will get through this TOGETHER!” Trump wrote. Trump made the announcement about two hours…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Pope Francis has reportedly refused to meet with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during his visit to Rome over a dispute between the Vatican and China. Mr Pompeo plans to visit the Vatican this week to protest the imminent renewal of a two-year-old deal between the Catholic church and China, which the…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 32-year-old Wisconsin school staffer who sexually abused a 16-year-old student — and told police she was going through “extensive personal issues” in her life at the time — has pleaded guilty. On Monday, former Green Bay school staffer Courtney Roznowski was sentenced to six months in jail after pleading no contest…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-This Nov. 6 will mark 38 years president Paul Biya has clung on to power in Cameroon—making him Africa’s second longest-serving head of state, after his peer Teodoro Obiang of Equatorial Guinea. Biya, 87, became president in 1982, long before the majority of the central African country’s 25 million people were born….
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Togo’s President Faure Gnassingbe on Monday named the first-ever female prime minister to head the government in the West African nation. Victoire Tomegah Dogbe, 60, replaces Komi Selom Klassou, who resigned on Friday. A close ally of the president, she has served as his chief-of-staff since 2009. Togo had been due for…
