LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Indonesian Special Forces soldiers showed off their survival skills on Wednesday by eating snakes and drinking their blood in front of U.S. Defence Secretary James Mattis. Mattis was visiting the Indonesian armed forces headquarters in Jakarta on the last of his three-day visit to the country before departing for Vietnam. As part…
LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (NEWSRAGERS)-More than two million people from over 130 countries have taken part in the second-largest Muslim gathering in the world. The annual Biswa Ijtema (“world congregation”) event concluded on Sunday with a mass, collective prayer on the banks of the Turag River, about 35km from the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka. Over the three-day…
LAGOS JANUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Thailand’s Immigration police have arrested four Nigerians and one Cameroonians and charged them with operating an online romance scam to deceive Thai women into wiring them money. Immigration Police Bureau commissioner, Pol Lt-General Sutthipong Wongpin, revealed that their arrest came after police received complaints from several Thai women who reported that foreigners…
LAGOS JANUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A group of Cameroonian activists demanding secession from the French-speaking regions says it’s considering attacks on foreign companies operating in the central African nation. The group, which hails from the country’s two Anglophone regions, says it wants to “target foreign companies investing in Cameroon” because their revenues sustain “incompetent officials” in President…
LAGOS JANUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ghana’s Aviation Minister Cecelia Dapaah has warned British Airways (BA) it could face sanctions, after reports of bed bugs on some of the airline’s flights into the country. A British newspaper reported this week that a BA flight to Accra was grounded at London’s Heathrow Airport for four hours, after the insects…
LAGOS JANUARY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-On Wednesday, Britain appointed a “minister for loneliness” to tackle what Prime Minister Theresa May described as “the sad reality of modern life” affecting millions of people. Tracey Crouch, a junior minister for sport and civil society, will take on the role as part of a broader strategy to combat loneliness in…
LAGOS JANUARY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Daphne Caruana Galizia, a prominent Maltese journalist and blogger who made repeated and detailed corruption allegations against Prime Minister Joseph Muscat’s inner circle, was killed by a car bomb on Monday. Muscat condemned the killing as a “barbaric” act and ordered security services to devote maximum resources to bringing those responsible to…
LAGOS JANUARY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Several people, including two police officers, were killed in an operation to capture a helicopter pilot who bombed Venezuela’s Supreme Court during anti-government protests last year, the interior ministry said Monday. A ministry statement said members of a “terrorist cell” were killed in a fierce gunbattle, and five were captured, but did…
