LAGOS JUNE 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Kenyan activists on Friday circulated calls for fresh protests, strikes and sit-ins demanding President William Ruto quit, after nationwide demonstrations forced him to U-turn on proposed tax hikes. Ruto withdrew the contested finance bill on Wednesday and said he would listen to young people, a day after parliament was briefly stormed and…
LAGOS JUNE 29TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-President Biden beat back calls Friday from allies that he consider bowing out of his reelection bid, following up Thursday’s weak debate performance with a firmly voiced promise to defeat former President Trump. “I give you my word as a Biden: I would not be running again if I didn’t believe with…
LAGOS JUNE 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A raspy and sometimes halting President Joe Biden tried repeatedly to confront Donald Trump in their first debate ahead of the November election, as his Republican rival countered Biden’s criticism by leaning into falsehoods about the economy, illegal immigration and his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection. Biden’s uneven performance,…
LAGOS JUNE 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A court in New York on Wednesday sentenced former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez to 45 years in prison after he was convicted of trafficking hundreds of tons of cocaine into the United States. Anti-Hernandez protesters gathered outside the Manhattan courthouse ahead of sentencing brandishing placards decrying the former head of state’s…
LAGOS JUNE 25TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-A Spanish church in Mexico is allegedly selling plots of land in heaven after the local pastor claimed that he spoke to God and was granted permission to sell pearly gate property for $100 (R1,800) per square metre. Images of the holy deal circulated on social media, with a brochure showing a…
LAGOS JUNE 25TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-A cyberattack on Indonesia’s national data centre compromised hundreds of government offices and caused long delays at the capital’s main airport, with the hacker demanding an $8 million ransom, officials said Monday. Long queues formed at immigration gates at Jakarta’s Soekarno-Hatta International Airport last week after systems went down in the attack,…
LAGOS JUNE 23RD (NEWSRNAGERS)-Recreational boaters off the coast of the Florida Keys recently found 65 pounds of cocaine floating in the ocean, authorities said. Monroe County Sheriff’s Office Earlier this month, divers found 25 kilograms of cocaine about 100 feet underwater off Key West. Images released by the sheriff’s office showed packages marked “Nike SB,”…
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRNAGERS)-An attack that reportedly killed more than 100 soldiers on an army base in Burkina Faso has snowballed into speculation about unrest in the security forces, in a country where the military has been in power since 2022. The leader of the military junta has since appeared on state TV in an…