LAGOS MAY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Princess Elizabeth Bright, a 22yrs old student has been elected as one of the youngest councillors in UK, representing Eastbrook ward in Dagenham, during the UK Election which took place on Thursday, May 3rd. Her mother, Councillor Afolasade Bright from the Borough of Barking and Dagenham Council was also re-elected. She is…
LAGOS MAY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 1,500 demonstrators were arrested overnight in Russia after people took to the streets protesting Vladimir Putin’s government. The protests were organized by a leader who was barred from running in the election. Navalny called on people demonstrate in nearly a hundred cities across the world’s largest country to convey…
LAGOS MAY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Vice President Joe Biden revealed that during a recent visit to his ailing friend Republican Senator John McCain, the two conversed about how the U.S.’s “international reputation is being damaged” under President Donald Trump. Biden, who spent several hours at McCain’s ranch in Arizona last Sunday, told The New York Times…
LAGOS MAY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Thousands of people demonstrated in central Paris on Saturday amid a heavy police presence to protest against President Emmanuel Macron’s sweeping reforms, a year after he came to office. Some 2,000 security forces including riot police were deployed as marchers gathered from midday in warm early summer sunshine in the central Opera…
LAGOS MAY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-President Donald Trump on Monday said he would like to visit Nigeria, describing it as an “amazing country.” Mr Trump spoke while receiving President Muhammadu Buhari at the State House. “Well, I would like very much to visit Nigeria. It is an amazing country. In certain ways, I hear from the standpoint…
LAGOS MAY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-President of the United States of America, Donald Trump, on Monday, said recent killings of Christians in Nigeria were not acceptable to his government. “Also we have had very serious problems with Christians who are being murdered in Nigeria, we are going to be working on that problem very, very hard because…
LAGOS MAY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-President Trump warmly welcomed the president of Nigeria to the White House Monday, the first high-profile meeting with a sub-Saharan African leader for a president who has previously disparaged the continent. Proclaiming a good relationship with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, Trump told reporters he appreciated the nation’s role as a “strong democracy…
LAGOS MAY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-President Trump said Monday that he urged Nigeria’s president, Muhammadu Buhari, to remove trade barriers to allow additional US investment in the African nation. Trump noted that the United States sends more than $1 billion in foreign aid annually to Nigeria and said it should get something in return. ‘‘We think that…
