LAGOS DECEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGRS)-Islamic extremists on motorcycles killed 14 security force members who were escorting election officials in the West African nation of Niger, the first large attack there since 71 soldiers were killed in a massive ambush earlier this month, authorities said Thursday. The attack took place Wednesday night near Sanam, which is about…
LAGOS DECEMBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-UK Charity Commission has indicted the board of trustees of United Kingdom (UK) branch of Christ Embassy, founded by Pastor Chris Oyakhilome of a wide range of fraudulent practices including illegally paying more than N827 million (£1,767,250) to entities and organisations it shares close relationships with. This is coming after a five-year-long…
LAGOS DECEMBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-It’s been a good year for Asia’s richest man, Mukesh Ambani. The Indian tycoon added almost $17 billion to his wealth as of Dec. 23, the most in Asia, taking his net worth to about $61 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. In comparison, Alibaba Group founder Jack Ma’s net worth…
LAGOS DECEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A court in Saudi Arabia on Monday sentenced five people to death for the killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, who was murdered in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul last year by a team of Saudi agents. Saudi Arabia’s state-run Al-Ekhbariya TV channel reported that three others were sentenced to prison….
LAGOS DECEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than eleven people have been killed and more than three hundred treated in hospital after drinking coconut wine in the Philippines, including some who were celebrating at a Christmas party, health and local authorities said on Monday. The poisoning occurred in Laguna and Quezon, two provinces south of Manila, and…
LAGOS DECEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The West African Economic and Monetary Union has agreed with France to a number of changes to the CFA franc currency, including a new name, Ivory Coast’s President Alassane Ouattara said Saturday, as the West African bloc inches closer to a split from the French-backed currency. The monetary union will move its…
LAGOS DECEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Cameroon’s parliament granted special status on Friday to two English-speaking regions to try to calm a separatist insurgency that has killed 2,000 people, but the separatists said only independence would satisfy them. The law, passed in a special session of parliament, says the Anglophone Northwest and Southwest regions “benefit from a special…
LAGOS DECEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Five people suspected of burning down four mosques in Ethiopia’s Amhara region were arrested on Saturday, a regional spokesman said, as rising inter-communal and ethnic violence threatens political reforms initiated by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. “Five people who are suspected of leading and organizing the attacks have now been arrested,” Getnet Yirsaw,…
