LAGOS JANUARY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Brazil’s government expressed outrage on Saturday after dozens of immigrants deported from the United States arrived by plane in handcuffs, calling it a “flagrant disregard” for their rights. The foreign ministry said it would demand an explanation from Washington over the “degrading treatment of passengers on the flight”. The spat comes as…
LAGOS JULY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 38 Nigerians deported from the United Kingdom, in the early hours on Thursday, arrived in Lagos. According to authorities in Nigeria, the deportees, who are mainly mothers and grandmothers, arrived the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja. They arrived in Lagos early this morning with one Home Office charter flight….
LAGOS MARCH 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Nearly 4 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have arrived in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, the third and largest delivery so far to an African country by the global COVAX initiative, which was created to ensure that low- and middle-income countries have fair access to vaccines. The COVAX program shipped 3.94 million doses…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 4,000 of the Fulani herdsmen who fled from the southern Nigerian states following the reported quit notice served them have so far seeped into Labduga, a community in Kachia Local Government Area of Kaduna State, northwest Nigeria. A Kaduna State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) official, Hussaini Abdullahi, disclosed this…
LAGOS AUGUST 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Special Forces approved by the Defence Headquarters to halt the senseless killings and restore peace in Southern Kaduna have arrived Kafanchan ahead of their deployment to the various flashpoints in the area later today. The Special Forces were drawn from the Nigerian Army. They were received at Sector 7, the headquarters…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Migrants in a caravan of Central Americans arrived in Tijuana by the hundreds Wednesday, getting their first glimpse of the robust U.S. military presence that awaits them after President Donald Trump ordered thousands of troops to the border. Several hundred people from the caravan got off buses and made their way to…