LAGOS JULY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Zimbabwean Government, on Wednesday, summoned the British envoy over an assault on Foreign Minister, Sibusiso Busi Moyo, and his delegation in London, state-run media reported. The Herald newspaper added that the government had also called for the attackers, who appeared to be predominantly Zimbabwean. It added that the attackers be prosecuted…
LAGOS JULY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)A zoo keeper at Indonesia’s Surabaya zoo has been arrested and charged with sexual assault on a number of animals and even, strangely enough, of impregnating a female orangutan, reports the Kalimantan Press this morning. The 38-year-old zoo keeper was filmed in full action by a series of hidden cameras put in…
LAGOS JULY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)— Dozens of Christchurch gun owners on Saturday handed over their weapons in exchange for money, in the first of more than 250 planned buyback events around New Zealand after the government outlawed many types of semi-automatics. Police said they paid more than 430,000 New Zealand dollars ($288,000) to 169 gun owners…
LAGOS JULY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Immigration Department of Malaysia, on Friday, confirmed that a Nigerian PhD student at the Limkokwing University, Thomas Orhions Ewansiha, had died in their custody. Ewansiha, according to the Director General of the agency, Datuk Khairul Dzaimee Daud was detained during a raid on July 4 at 10.45 p.m. at the Desa…
LAGOS JULY 12TH (NEWSRANGRS)-A Ghanaian lawmaker, Dr. Clement Abas Apaak, has said that he would be going into the music industry in order to make ends meet. Apaak, who represents, Builsa South in the Upper East Region on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress said this on a radio show, reports Ghana Web. According…
LAGOS JULY 12TH (NEWSANGERS)-Zimbabwe’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Sibusiso Busi Moyo was, on Friday, attacked by protesters at Chatham House in the UK. The country’s Information Permanent Secretary, Ndabaningi Nick Mangwana and his aides were also attacked. A video shared on Twitter by Hopewell Chin’ono, @daddyhope, revealed one of the protesters, pouring…
LAGOS JULY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Sudan’s ruling Transitional Military Council (TMC) said late Thursday that it had foiled an attempted coup. In a statement broadcast live on state-run television, it said the coup was attempted in a bid to undermine the final agreement to be signed between the military and opposition on sharing power for three years…
LAGOS JULY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The only daughter of Saudi Arabia’s King Salman was put on trial in absentia Tuesday in Paris for allegedly ordering her bodyguard to strike a plumber she suspected of taking photos and video at the Saudi royal family’s apartment in the French capital. Prosecutors allege Princess Hessa bint Salman became enraged when…