LAGOS DECEMBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Six persons have been arrested following a bloody clash between Ghanaian and Nigerian traders in Accra. Three persons, according to the police, were injured during the Monday morning fight at Kwame Nkrumah Circle.The fight follows the closure of shops belonging to some Nigerian traders. Earlier report suggested that the aggrieved Nigerian traders…
LAGOS DECEMBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Iran is experiencing its deadliest political unrest since the Islamic Revolution 40 years ago, with at least 180 people killed — and possibly hundreds more — as angry protests have been smothered in a government crackdown of unbridled force. It began two weeks ago with an abrupt increase of at least 50%…
LAGOS DECEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A South African police constable, Austin Reynold, has been sentenced to 30 years in jail by a court for killing a Nigerian man living in that country. Twenty-four-year Reynold was accused of killing Ebuka Okoli in Durban, a coastal city in Kwa Zulu-Natal province in South Africa. The court sentenced the policeman…
LAGOS DECEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A US Customs and Border Protection officer has been charged with murder after Texas police say he shot and killed his wife on Thanksgiving. Officers in League City, Texas, responding to a call about ‘multiple gunshots’ fired on Thursday arrived to find Dudley Bernard, 40, standing outside his home near the body…
LAGOS DECEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 14 people were shot dead in an attack on a church in eastern Burkina Faso on Sunday morning, the government said. The identity of the gunmen was not immediately clear and further details on the attack had yet to emerge. Burkinabe armed forces were caring for the wounded and…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Roman Catholic bishop went on trial in southern India on Saturday accused of repeatedly raping a nun. Franco Mulakkal arrived in court in Kottayam, Kerala state, with a group of supporters after attending morning prayers. While the Catholic church has been rocked by sexual assault and abuse cases in many countries,…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A military court in Suriname sentenced President Desi Bouterse to 20 years in prison Friday over the executions of political opponents when he was the South American country’s dictator in the 1980s. Bouterse, 74, is on a state visit to China and will appeal the judgement when he returns next week, his…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Namibia’s election on 27 November was carried out in a largely peaceful and orderly manner, according to an interim statement issued by the Commonwealth observers who were deployed to the country. The group noted that the 2019 Presidential and National Assembly Elections – the sixth multiparty elections since Namibia’s independence –…