LAGOS MARCH 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Faculty members at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, have voted by a large majority that the school should annul the honorary degree awarded Donald Trump in 1988. Almost 83 percent of faculty members who participated in this week’s ballot approved the motion calling on the school’s board of trustees to rescind Trump’s…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Mancoba Seven Angels Ministry, a church run as a cult, with no fewer than 100 sex slaves, was busted by the South African police. Among the sex slaves were girls as young as 12, nursing tiny babies and with leaders who regard themselves as angels. The church, called Mancoba Seven Angels Ministry,…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Zimbabwe’s former leader Robert Mugabe is celebrating his first birthday since his resignation in near solitude, far from the lavish affair of years gone by. The government that removed him with military assistance in November has declared Feb. 21, Mugabe’s birthday, a national holiday. But there are no signs of past celebrations,…
LAGOS FEBRARY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Billy Graham, the famed evangelist who became known as “America’s Pastor,” has died at the age of 99, The Associated Press reported. Graham died at his home Wednesday morning from natural causes, a family spokesman told ABC News. Born in 1918 in Charlotte, North Carolina, William Franklin Graham Jr. was the oldest…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A powerful, magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck south and central Mexico on Friday afternoon, damaging buildings and sending panicked residents fleeing into the streets. There were no immediate reports of deaths, but officials said some homes and businesses near the quake’s epicenter in Oaxaca state had been damaged. The U.S. Geological Survey said…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ethiopia’s prime minister has submitted a letter of resignation in a surprise move that comes amid protracted anti-government protests. The resignation of Hailemariam Desalegn, who has been in power since 2012, was first reported by the state-affiliated broadcaster Fana on Thursday and follows a nationwide state of emergency last year. His stepping…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-South Africa’s new president, Cyril Ramaphosa, on Thursday used his first speech in office to vow to fight government corruption, in a direct reference to accusations levelled against his predecessor Jacob Zuma. “Issues to do with corruption, issues of how we can straighten out our state-owned enterprises and how we deal with…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former student opened fire with a semi-automatic rifle at a Florida high school Wednesday, killing at least 17 people and sending hundreds of students fleeing into the streets in the nation’s deadliest school shooting since a gunman attacked an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut. The shooter, who was equipped with a…
