LAGOS FEBRUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A strong explosion near a gold mining site in southwestern Burkina Faso killed 59 people and injured more than 100 others Monday, the national broadcaster and witnesses reported. The provisional toll was provided by regional authorities following the blast in the village of Gbomblora, RTB reported. The explosion was believed to have…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Mohamed Cisse used to employ hundreds of workers in Mali’s capital Bamako before economic sanctions last month shut borders and cut the lifeblood of his construction business. Cement is scarce. Its key ingredient, clinker, comes from neighbouring Senegal, from which all but essential goods are blocked. Cisse has been forced to shut…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Seven children have been killed in Niger in an air strike by the Nigerian army targeting “bandits”, a local governor and state media have said. Five more were hurt in the apparently accidental strike, the governor of Niger’s Maradi region told AFP. Governor Chaibou Aboubacar said four were killed instantly and three…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A Philippine police helicopter crashed Monday as it was flying to pick up the country’s police chief on a resort island, killing a crew member and injuring the two pilots, officials said. The Airbus H125 helicopter went missing after taking off from Manila and was found two hours later to have crashed…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Mali’s lawmakers on Monday approved a plan allowing the military junta to rule for up to five years, AFP journalists said, despite regional sanctions imposed on the country over delayed elections. The army-dominated legislature also decided that the country’s interim president cannot stand for a future democratic election, as part of the…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An elder statesman and Former Aviation Minister, Chief Ebenezer Babatope, has declared his support for former Governor Peter Obi, whom he said is the best presidential candidate and his most preferred choice for Presidency come 2023. Babatope made the declaration during his interview with The Sun Newspapers, where he stated that the…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Kenya High Commissioner to Nigeria, Ambassador Wilfred Gisuka Machage is dead. The Ambassador, it was gathered, was ill and was rushed to an undisclosed hospital in Abuja. The nature of his ailment could not be ascertained at the time of filing this report. But a source close to the Ambassador said…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General LEO Irabor, has solicited sustainable collaboration among all stakeholders in the value chain of the oil and gas industry in Nigeria. He made the call in a remark in Abuja on Friday 18 February 2022 during a meeting with the Governors of oil and gas…
