LAGOS SEPTEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-China will respond if the United States takes any new steps on trade, the foreign ministry said on Monday, after President Donald Trump warned he was ready to slap tariffs on virtually all Chinese imports into the United States. On Friday, Trump said he was ready to levy additional taxes on practically…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Armed Anglophone separatists burned buses and blocked traffic into and out of the capital of the English-speaking northwest region, Cameroon’s military said Sunday, and it deployed additional troops. Separatists said the action in Bamenda is meant to disrupt next month’s presidential election as they say voting cannot take place in what they…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An Egyptian court on Saturday issued its final verdict upholding death sentences against 75 Muslim Brotherhood members and supporters — including journalists — for their participation in protests following the 2013 ouster of democratically elected President Mohamed Morsy. The mass trial has been widely condemned by human rights organizations, with Amnesty International…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Class A drugs with a potential street value of £27m have been found hidden inside a lorry carrying vegetables at a port in the east of England. About 400kg of cocaine and heroin were discovered hidden among a load of onions and tomatoes at Killingholme port in north Lincolnshire in an operation…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria parents, Titilayo and Kehinde Omosebi, have been arrested by the Reedsburg Police in Wisconsin, US, after their son, Ayanfe, starved to death during a religious fast. According to the Facebook page of Reedsburg Police, the father of the deceased, Kehinde walked into the police station to report that his son had…
LAGOS AUGUST 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-President Trump’s favorite news outlet to hate did not back down from the commander-in-tweet’s recent attack on its reporting. He tweeted Wednesday that CNN is “being caught in a major lie” over a story purporting that he knew about the infamous 2016 Trump Tower meeting between Trump campaign officials and a Kremlin-connected…
LAGOS AUGUST 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A top Catholic Church figure is calling on Pope Francis to resign after another official published a letter accusing senior Vatican officials of covering up widespread sexual abuse for decades. “I do think it’s about limiting the days of this pope, and short of that, neutering his voice or casting ambiguity around…
LAGOS AUGUST 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 9-year-old boy has committed suicide after being bullied for his sexuality, according to a Denver mom. Jamel Myles just started fourth grade last Monday and was eager to open up to his peers after coming out as gay to his mom over the summer. “And he looked so scared when he…