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…
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…