LAGOS FEBRUARY 20TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Francis also received another get-well wish from US Vice-President JD Vance, whom the pope recently targeted in criticising the Trump administration’s plans for mass deportations of migrants. “Let’s all say a prayer for Pope Francis, who appears to have some serious health issues,” Vance, a Catholic, posted on X from his private…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Trump called Zelenskyy a ‘dictator’, sparking criticism from European leaders including UK’s Starmer and Germany’s Scholz, who defended Zelenskyy’s democratic legitimacy. The UK’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer has defended Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday after US President Donald Trump called the Ukrainian leader a “dictator.” Zelenskyy was a “democratically elected leader”…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Donald Trump on Wednesday warned Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that he “better move fast” to negotiate an end to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine or risk not having a nation to lead. The rhetoric from Trump toward Ukraine comes amid an escalating back-and-forth between the two presidents and rising tensions between Washington…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The United States has commenced deportation proceedings for Nigerian nationals, with 85 individuals set to arrive in Lagos, while 116 others remain in detention. The Federal Government, through the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu, has expressed concerns over the process, calling for a more humane approach. Odumegwu-Ojukwu, in…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A US military aircraft carrying 116 illegal Indian immigrants landed at the Amritsar International Airport late Saturday night, with one deportee claiming they were handcuffed with their legs chained during the journey. Among the deportees, 33 were from Haryana, eight from Gujarat, three from Uttar Pradesh, and two each from Goa, Maharashtra,…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A ‘violent’ earthquake has rattled Delhi today with locals saying it was the ‘strongest’ they had ever felt. Tremors were felt in India‘s capital city as well as other northern parts of the country, reported India Today. The magnitude 4.0 quake struck 4km southwest of New Delhi and lasted ‘for a few seconds’….
LAGOS FEBRUARY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS) – A drone strike has hit a pumping station on a oil pipeline in Russia, reducing flows from Kazakhstan to world markets pumped by Western firms including Chevron and Exxon Mobil, its operator said on Monday. The strike comes a day before U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is scheduled to…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-“The cloud is gathering and becoming darker by the day. Danger lurks around as hunger and starvation bite harder. Nigerians are running out of patience with the government, and if urgent steps are not taken by the government to arrest the ugly trend, something disastrous might happen,” that was how a Katsina-based…