LAGOS MAY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Church leaders in Sierra Leone have vehemently protested against the action taken by the First Lady of Sierra Leone , Mrs. Fatima Bio and the authorities of Kenema- one of the strongholds of the ruling Sierra Leone People’s Party ( SLPP ) —to call off church services today, Pentecost Sunday, to permit…
LAGOS MAY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Alice Stewart, a veteran political adviser and CNN political commentator who worked on several GOP presidential campaigns, has died. She was 58. Law enforcement officials told CNN that Stewart’s body was found outdoors in the Bellevue neighborhood in northern Virginia early Saturday morning. No foul play is suspected, and officers believe a medical emergency occurred. “Alice was a…
LAGOS MAY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Storms battered Texas and Louisiana late Thursday and early Friday with destructive winds and torrential rain, leaving at least four dead, roads flooded and more than 1 million homes and businesses without power — as more floods Friday could plague parts of the Gulf Coast. At least four people died as the…
LAGOS MAY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-France on Wednesday said it was imposing a state of emergency in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia for at least 12 days, boosting police deployments and banning video app TikTok in a bid to quell deadly unrest that has left four people dead. The emergency measures give authorities greater powers…
LAGOS MAY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Thousands of migrant care workers have been threatened with deportation, despite doing nothing wrong, after the Home Office took enforcement action against their employers. In one case, a brother and sister from India who paid a recruitment agency £18,000 to secure care jobs in the UK, only to find they had been…
LAGOS MAY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Some Ukrainian prisoners will be able to apply for early parole and join the army under a new law aimed at boosting Kyiv’s manpower in its fight against the Russian invasion. The new law will apply only to prisoners who have no more than three years left of their original sentences and…
LAGOS MAY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former senator and the acting mayor of a small Haiti town have been charged in the death of a journalist whose 2019 killing, amid the country’s deepening political crisis, sparked protests and calls for an investigation after he became the third journalist in the country killed in less than two years….
LAGOS MAY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ukrainian soldier dressed as a woman was arrested as he tried to flee to Romania to avoid combat on the front lines where Kyiv’s forces are heavily outnumbered. The 44-year-old, a listed soldier, attempted to cross the border in Transcarpathia but was apprehended, the Ukrainian border authorities. “Fashion bow, make-up with a…