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…
LAGOS JUNE 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Dominican Republic Withdraws Diezani Alison Madueke’s Diplomatic Status The Dominican Republic has withdrawn the diplomatic status it accorded the former Minister of Petroleum Resources Diezani Alison Madueke. The Chairman of EFCC Mr Ibrahim Mustapha Magu stated this on Friday during a chat on TVC programme Journalists Hangout. Mr Magun who stated that…
LAGOS JUNE 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A far-right Norwegian man was jailed for 21 years on Thursday (June 11) for murder and anti-terrorism offences. Philip Manshaus, now 22-years-old, shot and killed his Chinese-born stepsister in their family home last year, then drove to the nearby al-Noor Islamic Center and fired several shots but hit no one. He was…
LAGOS JUNE 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Black Americans of African descent should return to the continent because they are not wanted in the United States, a government minister in Ghana has said. Barbara Oteng Gyasi, the country’s tourism minister, urged black Americans to return “home” during an emotional ceremony in the Ghanaian capital Accra to mark the death…
LAGOS JUNE 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A corrections officer who participated in a counterprotest to a Black Lives Matter demonstration in New Jersey in which people reenacted the death of George Floyd was suspended after the video was widely shared on social media. In the video, protesters march along a street Monday in Franklin Township, Gloucester County, chanting…
LAGOS JUNE 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A young Iraqi wedding party turned into a funeral after the groom’s father accidentally killed his son. The groom was killed after his father shot in his wedding ceremony an expression of joy that suddenly turned into a tragedy after he was hit by a bullet in the chest area, in addition…
LAGOS JUNE 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Seven Nigerians have been arrested in Vietnam for allegedly cheating many people of more than $5.2 million. They were arrested alongside four Vietnamese suspects, according to a Vietnam-based news website, VN Express. The newspaper quoted Vietnamese police as saying, “the arrests were the result of investigations triggered by a complaint made in…
LAGOS JUNE 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Tanzania’s President John Magufuli has declared the country “coronavirus-free” thanks to prayers by citizens. “The corona disease has been eliminated thanks to God,” Mr Magufuli told worshippers in a church in the capital, Dodoma. The World Health Organization (WHO) has expressed concern over the government’s strategy on Covid-19. The government has stopped…
