LAGOS JANUARY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Osofo Maame, the wife of Ghanaian pastor who mistakenly sent her nudes to members of her church via WhatsApp, has reportedly attempted suicide out of embarrassment. According to Mynewgh, Maame, who has become a subject of public discussion, especially among members of the husband’s church, was reported to have tried drinking a…
LAGOS JANUARY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Cameroon’s minister of communications says 47 suspected separatists and leaders of a group that declared the independence of English-speaking regions have been extradited from Nigeria. Issa Tchiroma Bakary said those extradited arrived in Cameroon on Monday. He said among them were Julius Ayuk Tabe, who in October proclaimed himself the president of…
LAGOS JANUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The U.N. refugee and migration agencies say the bodies of at least 30 Somalis and Ethiopians were found drowned this week off the Yemeni coast near Aden. They are believed to have been traveling in a smuggler’s boat. Survivors say the overcrowded boat was packed with 152 Somalis and Ethiopians heading for…
LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Unrest in Cameroon’s English-speaking regions intensified with arson attacks on schools and a city market as the government vowed to quash a secessionist movement whose leaders are in detention in Nigeria, saying it won’t negotiate with terrorists. At least three schools were torched this week in the Northwest region, one of two…
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…