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…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Commonwealth law ministers have unanimously resolved to remove barriers to access to justice in their respective countries, and to deliver Sustainable Development Goal 16 on peace, justice and strong institutions by 2030. The biennial Commonwealth Law Ministers Meeting concluded today with a set of proposed actions to be taken at the national…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)- On 7 November 2019, Trial Chamber VI of the International Criminal Court (“ICC”) (https://www.ICC-CPI.int/), unanimously, sentenced (http://bit.ly/32mJ6j9) Bosco Ntaganda to a total of 30 years of imprisonment. The time Mr Ntaganda has spent in detention at the ICC – from 22 March 2013 to 7 November 2019 – will be deducted from this sentence….
LAGOS NOVEMBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS) – The United Nations on Wednesday said it would allocate $8 million to support more than 40,000 refugees who have fled violence in Nigeria to neighbouring Niger. Thousands have left northwest Nigeria since May as violence and attacks blamed on armed gangs have escalated. The surge in kidnappings, killings and sexual…