LAGOS MAY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Burkina Faso’s military regime, in power since a 2022 coup, will extend its rule for five years under an accord adopted during national consultations on Saturday, the talks’ chairman said. “The duration of the transition is fixed at 60 months from July 2, 2024,” Colonel Moussa Diallo, chairman of the organising committee…
LAGOS MAY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Senegalese government has announced the end of French as an official language, replacing it with Arabic. This decision, made at a Cabinet meeting on Sunday, reflects the ongoing political transformation in Senegal. The decision follows the recent election of opposition candidate Bassirou Faye as president. In a televised address on March…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Sudanese refugee stabbed and killed an employee at a centre for asylum seekers in the southern French city of Pau on Friday after his request for political asylum was rejected, authorities said. A police source said the Sudanese asylum seeker killed the director of the centre by stabbing him repeatedly in…
LAGOS OCTOBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two women and a man were killed in decapitation attacks by a knife-wielding assailant who shouted “Allahu akbar!” at a church in the French city of Nice in what President Emmanuel Macron called an “Islamist terrorist attack” — one of three strikes targeting the country on Thursday. Mayor Christian Estrosi said on…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-France’s education minister on Friday said 22 schools have had to shut on French territory due to the coronavirus since pupils returned to school this week, emphasising that over half of these were in the Indian Ocean island of La Reunion. Education Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer told Europe 1 radio that he was…
LAGOS DECEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Super Eagles of Nigeria have ended the year with their highest world ranking in the last decade, FIFA rankings reveal. According to data released by the football governing body on Thursday, the Eagles ended the year in the 31st position. The last time Nigeria finished a year higher was in 2009,…
By Demola Olarewaju LAGOS JULY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian icon was harassed, censored and imprisoned for singing truth to power. Today power celebrates him. Every time I see politicians and statesmen honouring Fela Kuti, I chuckle to myself and wish I could be there to ask with the utmost seriousness: “Are you, sir, recommending Fela to…
LAGOSJULY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The former Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi, has commended the visit of the French President Emmanuel Macron to Nigeria, describing it as “a positive development”. Obi spoke as part of the dignitaries that received the French President at Fela’s Afrika Shrine in Ikeja on Tuesday. While answering questions from newsmen, Obi…