LAGOS FEBRUARY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nearly 8,000 Cameroon refugees have fled to eastern and southern Nigeria in the past two weeks, the United Nations refugee agency said on Thursday, as violence flared between security forces and separatist insurgents. The spike in refugees, coming in the run-up to last weekend’s general elections, brings the total number of Cameroonians…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Commonwealth Secretary-General has launched a new scholarship at the King Henry VIII College in Selangor, Malaysia. One of the first recipients was 16-year-old Scot Choo, the son of a pilot who died when Malaysian plane MH17 was shot down over Ukraine in 2014. Secretary-General Patricia Scotland officially presented Scot with his…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Trump fired Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, just hours after dismissing Ukraine expert Alexander Vindman, a decorated Army lieutenant colonel, according to statements released by Sondland and Vindman’s lawyer. “The most powerful man in the world – buoyed by the silent, the pliable, and the complicit – has…
LAGOS JANUARY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Controversial Ghanaian cleric Bishop Daniel Obinim of the International Godsway Ministries has done it again. He is a man famous for his controversial lifestyle and professions and he seems to enjoy the uproar that trails his actions on and off the pulpit. Multiple reports from Ghana say the self-acclaimed ‘Angel’ during a…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An Argentine and a Chinese national have reported to Korle-Bu Teaching hospital under the directive of a private hospital in Accra. According to peacefmonline.com, the two foreign nationals are said to have shown symptoms of the dreadful virus which has claimed close to 600 lives in Hubei and Wuhan, China. The two…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-South Sudanese medical staff deployed at Juba International Airport to screen arrivals for deadly Coronavirus have reportedly fled the airport after a plane carrying Chinese diplomats landed. South Sudan government this week begun screening all travelers at airports to help avert the spread of the coronavirus in the country. Coronaviruses are a…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ivory Coast’s navy has seized a record amount of cocaine plastic-wrapped in small bundles bearing the tattered logos of French fashion house Louis Vuitton and Pacena Black, a dark beer from Bolivia. The 411 kilograms of cocaine destined for the commercial capital Abidjan came from a Spanish-flagged ship that had been spotted…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Trump is celebrating his impeachment acquittal in the best way he knows how. After the Senate voted Wednesday to acquit Trump on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, he took irony to a new level and made yet another joke about being president for life. Specifically, he tweeted…
