LAGOS NOVEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS) – Nigeria and neighboring countries Benin and Niger have agreed to set up a joint border patrol force to tackle smuggling between the West African countries, they said in a communique on Thursday. Foreign ministers from the three countries met to discuss smuggling following a decision by regional giant Nigeria, which…
LAGOS NOVEMVER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Salva Kiir and the First Lady Mary Ayen Mayardit received the Senior Prophet, Temitope Balogun Joshua, commonly referred to as T. B. Joshua in Juba upon arrival at Juba International Airport on Tuesday morning. A number of senior government officials and thousands of believers from across the country also gathered at…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The first public hearings in the House Democrats’ ongoing impeachment inquiry into President Trump’s requests for Ukraine to investigate his political rivals begin Wednesday in Washington, D.C., with William Taylor, the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, and George Kent, a senior State Department official, scheduled to testify in an open session at…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Fuel stations along Nigeria’s land borders have closed and prices have spiked after customs authorities banned deliveries of petroleum products to stations within 20 kilometres (12 miles) of the border in an attempt to curb smuggling. Border communities have complained about the move however, prompting Nigeria’s lower chamber of parliament on Tuesday…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ethiopia’s cabinet approved a law to combat hate speech and the dissemination of false information. The new proclamation is aimed at addressing the erosion of the nation’s “social cohesion, political stability and national unity,” the Office of the Prime Minister said in a statement. Violence broke out last month in parts of…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Bolivian President Evo Morales said on Sunday he would resign to ease violence that has gripped the South American nation since a disputed election last month, but he stoked fears of further unrest by saying he was the victim of a “coup” and faced arrest. Video footage showed clashes on the streets…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Pope Francis has trashed the central Christian belief by saying in an interview that Jesus did not resurrect from the dead in the same body in which he was buried. An Italian journalist, Eugenio Scalfari, said in an article in the newspaper Repubblica, which he co-founded and edited, that the Pope gave…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Four judges were killed in an alleged Taliban attack in Afghanistan’s central province of Logar, officials said on Thursday. Provincial Council Members, Hasibullah Stanekzai and Mohammad Qasim Sediqi, announced this in Kabul. The judges were on their way to Kabul, from the southern province of Paktiya, when their car was targeted by…