LAGOS APRIL 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Canada in March marked the first drop in employment in three years, the national statistical agency said Friday, as uncertainty over US tariffs led businesses to cut staffing and stall hiring. Some 33,000 net jobs were shed in the month, pushing the unemployment rate up 0.1 percentage points to 6.7 percent, according to Statistics Canada. The…
LAGOS APRIL 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Thousands of people staged protests against Trump and Tesla boss Elon Musk across the US and beyond the borders to express dissatisfaction with policies and actions of the current administration. Crowds of people angry with how US President Donald Trump and his administration have been running the country have taken to the…
LAGOS APRIL 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Another round of torrential rain and flash flooding came Saturday for parts of the South and Midwest already heavily waterlogged by days of severe storms that also spawned deadly tornadoes. Forecasters warned that rivers in some places would continue to rise for days. Day after day of heavy rains have pounded the…
LAGOS APRIL 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An inmate killed his wife as she visited him in a prison in eastern Germany, prosecutors said on Friday. The Thursday incident occurred at the Burg prison in Magdeburg, west of Berlin. The 37-year-old prisoner was reportedly alone with his 35-year-old wife in a room set up for visitors of long-term inmates….
LAGOS APRIL 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The U.S. State Department revoked the visas of members of a Mexican band after they projected the face of a drug cartel boss onto a large screen during a performance in the western state of Jalisco over the weekend. U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau, who was U.S. ambassador to Mexico…
LAGOS APRIL 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-US President Donald Trump has slammed a 14 percent reciprocal tariff on all Nigerian goods entering the US as the much talked about “Liberation Day” tariffs comes into effect. Trump had said that countries would face a tariff rate at half the level they charge the US, as deemed by the White…
LAGOS APRIL 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Three Americans convicted for their role in a failed coup in Democratic Republic of Congo last year have had their death sentences commuted to life imprisonment, the presidency has said. They were among 37 people sentenced to death last September by a military court. The three were accused of leading an attack…
LAGOS APRIL 2ND (NEWSRANGERS) – A fourth U.S. Army soldier, who together with three others went missing in Lithuania last week when their vehicle sank in a peat bog, has been found dead, U.S. and Lithuanian officials said on Tuesday. The three other soldiers were found dead on Monday after rescuers recovered the armoured vehicle…