LAGOS SEPTEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Canadian election campaign is off to a flying start, even if Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s plane was grounded by a scraped wing. A bus ferrying journalists collided with the wing of the Liberal party’s chartered Boeing on Wednesday night, BBC reported. Photos show a scrape where the coach roof hit the…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former Peruvian first lady was dragged out of a courtroom in San Francisco on Thursday as she cursed a judge’s decision to keep her husband, ex-president Alejandro Toledo, in jail pending extradition proceedings. Toledo, 73, is wanted in Peru to stand trial over accusations that he took a $20 million bribe…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Gambian government on Friday said it intended to prosecute former president Yahya Jammeh on allegations of theft and corruption. Jammeh, who ruled the tiny West African state for 22 years, fled the country in January 2017 after losing presidential elections and initially refusing to step down. The former president acquired more…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Donald Trump on Tuesday abruptly forced out John Bolton, his hawkish national security adviser with whom he had strong disagreements on Iran, Afghanistan and a cascade of other global challenges. The sudden shake-up marked the latest departure of a prominent voice of dissent from the president’s inner circle, as Trump has…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Seventeen people were injured when two elephants at a Sri Lankan street pageant went on a rampage on Saturday (September 7), local media reported. TV footage of the parade shows one of the elephants bolting from a group of people before trampling bystanders as it ran down the road. Starting from a…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)– Beverlyn Nyamakwenje was fast asleep in her home in the east Johannesburg township of Katlehong when she was woken by gunshots. Instructed by her panicked father, the 19-year old Zimbabwean grabbed a few belongings and fled with him to a police station for safety. “We left our bags,” Nyamakwenje said. “We…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe’s body will lie in state at two different stadiums in the capital city for three days, the information minister said Monday, but she did not announce where he would be buried on Sunday. Mugabe, an ex-guerrilla chief who took power in 1980 when the African country shook…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)- At least one person was killed and five others injured in Johannesburg on Sunday, police said, after security forces clashed with looters in the latest outbreak of xenophobic violence. South Africa’s biggest city and other areas were hit by a surge of attacks against businesses owned by migrants in the last…