LAGOS NOVEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The trial of eight South African police officers charged with the torture and murder of Nigerian National, Ibrahim Olamilekan Badmus, is underway at the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria, South Africa. The eight police officers – two women and six men – were arrested in October 2017 by police watchdog, the…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Disgraced Prince Andrew has been kicked out of his offices at Buckingham Palace. The British royal got his marching orders and was told to clear out on Friday — just days after announcing he was formally stepping away from official duties after a “car crash” of an interview defending his friendship with…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-As two weeks of televised impeachment hearings and wall-to-wall coverage came to a close, a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll showed that a majority of registered voters believe Donald Trump abused his powers as president of the United States. But the country remained divided over the question of whether he should be impeached…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been indicted on charges of fraud, bribery and breach of trust, the country’s justice ministry said Thursday, throwing the country’s political scene into even greater disarray and raising the prospect that the country’s longest-serving leader will be forced out of office. The 70-year-old prime minister has…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA), yesterday, gave a final ultimatum to foreigners involved in retail trade to leave the markets. In furtherance with the eviction order, GUTA, consented to open temporarily, all recently closed shops to enable the owners pack their wares and move out. The traders Union in a…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 20TH – The United States on Tuesday urged Cameroon to devolve power in its troubled anglophone region, saying the government’s military response was only strengthening separatists. The warning came weeks after the United States ended certain preferential trade benefits for Cameroon, citing human rights violations including arbitrary killings. Tibor Nagy, the top US…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS) — an American and an Australian — who had been held by the Taliban in Afghanistan since 2016 were released Tuesday in a prisoner swap for three high-ranking insurgents. American Kevin King and Australian Timothy Weeks, both professors at the American University of Kabul, were handed over to US forces in…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Donkeys are in a state of global crisis with the animals facing population collapse across a number of countries as traders target their skins to export as an ingredient for ejiao, a traditional Chinese medicine, international animal welfare charity The Donkey Sanctuary can reveal. The charity’s latest report into the trade, Under…