LAGOS AUGUST 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A judge on Friday blocked a move by US President Donald Trump’s administration to stop migrants from claiming asylum unless they had entered the country at an official border crossing, news outlets reported. The policy, enacted by Trump last year, is among a host of measures his government has taken against the…
LAGOS AUGUST 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Some 20 pilot whales have died stranded in mysterious circumstances on the south-western coast of Iceland, emergency services said Saturday, only two weeks after a similarly unexplained mass stranding had already killed dozens of the long-finned cetaceans. The dead whales, part of a group of 50 stranded whales, were discovered late Friday…
LAGOS AUGUST 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Donald Trump, President of the United States of America has claimed America will soon find a cure to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The US president also vowed that the country would also put an end to childhood cancer very soon. Trump in a campaign rally at Cincinnati, Ohio said, “We will achieve…
LAGOS AUGUST 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The jailed head of Cameroon’s anglophone separatists, Julius Sisiku Ayuk Tabe, has launched a hunger strike to protest the “disappearance” of co-detainees following prison riots, one of his lawyers said Thursday. Ayuk Tabe, self-proclaimed president of “Ambazonia”, the breakaway state the separatists want to create in the central African country, stopped eating…
LAGOS AUGUST 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-There have been news making rounds that the ‘Kenyan Jesus’ who was invited by a pastor to preach in the country has been deported. This is false. Identified as “Michael Job”, the “modern-day Jesus” is an American preacher and actor. He is in Kenya attending an interdenominational Christian event as a guest…
LAGOS AUGUST 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)- Equatorial Guinea’s President Teodoro Obiang Nguema will celebrate forty years in power on Saturday, highlighting his status as Africa’s longest-serving head of state. Since he seized control in a 1979 military coup, rights groups have described Obiang Nguema, 77, as one of the continent’s most brutal and corrupt dictators. In his…
LAGOS JULY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)- – Hundreds of demonstrators clashed with police in Liberia’s capital Monrovia on Wednesday during a march against corruption and economic mismanagement under former footballer turned president George Weah. Police fired tear gas to stop the demonstrators from approaching the parliament building in Monrovia, an AFP reporter at the scene said, while…
LAGOS JULY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Hamza bin Laden, the son of Osama bin Laden and heir to al Qaeda leadership, is dead, according to media reports. Officials confirmed to The New York Times that the younger bin Laden was killed in the past two years, but that it took time to confirm his death. The United States…