LAGOS JANUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former President Jimmy Carter’s nearly week-long public farewell began Saturday in the tiny Georgia town where he launched the political career that took him to the White House. The 39th president’s American flag-draped casket was carried in a motorcade heading to his hometown of Plains where he died Dec. 29 at the…
LAGOS JANUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A huge fire that erupted at a clothing market in Ghana’s capital Accra has destroyed hundreds of livelihoods and businesses. The fire at Kantamanto Market – one of the world’s largest secondhand clothing markets – has since been fully extinguished with no reported injuries or fatalities, Ghana’s National Fire Service said on…
LAGOS JANUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-South Korea’s presidential guards and military troops prevented authorities from arresting impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol on Friday in a tense six-hour stand-off inside Yoon’s compound in the heart of Seoul. Yoon is under criminal investigation for insurrection over his Dec. 3 martial law bid that stunned South Korea and led to…
LAGOS JANUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A judge has ordered that Donald Trump will be sentenced on 10 January in his hush-money case in New York – less than two weeks before he is set to be sworn in as president. New York Justice Juan Merchan signalled he would not sentence Trump to jail time, probation or a…
LAGOS JANUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A police officer in Zambia has been arrested for allegedly releasing over a dozen prisoners so they could celebrate New Year’s Eve. Detective Inspector Titus Phiri “forcibly seized cell keys” on Tuesday morning whilst “in a state of intoxication,” Zambia’s Police Service said in a press release on Wednesday. “Subsequently, (Phiri) unlocked…
LAGOS JANUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Firework mortars and camp fuel canisters were found stuffed into the back of the Tesla Cybertruck that exploded outside President-elect Donald Trump’s Las Vegas hotel early Wednesday, killing a suspect inside the vehicle and sparking an intense investigation into possible terrorism. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police and Clark County Fire Department officials said…
LAGOS JANUARY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-At least 15 people were killed and dozens injured when a driver rammed a pickup truck into a crowd during New Year’s celebrations on Bourbon Street in New Orleans early on Wednesday morning. The FBI is investigating it as an “act of terrorism.” The FBI has identified the suspect as a 42-year-old…
LAGOS JANUARY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-At least 71 people have died in southern Ethiopia after a lorry plunged into a river, officials say. The vehicle, which was travelling through Sidama state on Sunday, fell into the river after it missed a bridge, a local official told the Reuters news agency. Wosenyeleh Simion said many of the passengers…