LAGOS SEPTEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)- A fresh round of violence is currently building up in the streets of Johannesburg, South Africa, as armed protesters are out again, demanding that foreigners should return to where they came from. According to Sowetan Live, a South African newspaper, the protesters, who carried weapons such as knobkerries, are waiting to…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)- Israeli televangelist, Benny Hinn, has said that he is quitting prosperity preaching because the Holy Spirit was fed up with it. The 66-year-old, who made the announcement during a Facebook live programme earlier in the week, pointed that such preaching was a gimmick adopted by Christian religious leaders to squeeze money…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)- Civilisation was its best at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle after a young man was caught stealing red handed from a shop at the city’s busiest centre. Rather than using the usual method of either beating to pulp or killing the suspect, the crowd decided on a different alternative to teach the…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)- Zimbabwe was on Saturday due to begin a period of national mourning following the death of Robert Mugabe, the former guerrilla hero turned despot who ruled Zimbabwe for 37 years. As Zimbabweans expressed sharply divided opinions about Mugabe, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said his predecessor had been declared a “national hero” and…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)- – A U.S. judge on Wednesday rejected Exxon Mobil Corp’s and Royal Dutch Shell Plc’s effort to revive a $1.8 billion arbitration award against Nigeria’s state-run oil company, which stemmed from a dispute over a 1993 contract to extract oil near the African country’s coastline. U.S. District Judge William Pauley in…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A South African court has set aside an earlier decision to impound an Air Tanzania plane. The plane, an Airbus 220-300, had been prevented from taking off from Johannesburg’s OR Tambo International Airport on August 24 because of a court injunction. A farmer had sought the order saying he was owed at…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 5TH (NEWRANGERS)-The former first lady of Honduras Rosa Elena Bonilla, wife of ex-president Porfirio Lobo, was sentenced on Wednesday to 58 years in jail on charges of fraud and undue appropriation of funds, a spokesman for the nation’s highest court said. Bonilla, 52, has been in custody since February 2018. Her defense attorney…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-One of South African well known activist, Julius Malema, leader of Economic Freedom Fighters, EFF, assured everyone that South Africa is for everybody, has said there are no jobs in the country and so no one should be harassed. He said this while condemning the renewed spate of xenophobic attack on foreigners…