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 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ghana has become the first African country to introduce the use of locally made ankara fabrics as school uniforms. Ghanaian education system took the bold step to endorse and implement the use of Ankara Uniforms. This has been a step dubbed as an effort to celebrate and embrace the African heritage. In…
LAGOS JANUARY 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The death of former President Jerry John Rawlings seems to have given some people the boldness to do things that they wouldn’t have gathered the courage to do when he was alive. Apparently, another person has come out claiming that Rawlings was his biological father. A village drunkard identified as Akwasi George…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Dozens of commercial motorbike riders thronged the residence of former Ghanaian President Jerry John Rawlings’ residence barely hours after his death was reported yesterday, Thursday, November 12, 2020. “The Secretary of the Okada Riders (who are clad in NDC paraphernalia), Mr Fatau Dauda Bancey said the group were campaigning for the party…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former President of Ghana, Jerry Rawlings, has died, Ghanaian media reported on Thursday. Rawlings is suspected to have died from COVID-19 complications at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra. He was a former Ghanaian military leader and, later, civilian President between 1981 to 2001. Rawlings initially rose to power in Ghana…
LAGOS OCTOBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Chairman of the Nigerian union traders, Kizito Obiora Ikechukwu, claimed all the 92 shops locked up by the committee belong to Nigerians and that no other foreigner’s shop had been locked up. The leadership of the Nigerian Union Traders Association of Ghana (NUTAG) has called on the government to respond to their…
LAGOS AUGUST 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Following the riot act read by the Federal Government to hostility towards Nigerians in Ghana, the Ghanaian authorities has extended the olive branch, promising commitment to warm relations with Nigeria. In a statement issued on Sunday, the Ghanaian authority said it would engage the Federal Government of Nigeria with a view to…
LAGOS AUGUST 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Vice Presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the last elections, Mr. Peter Obi, has described as unfair, the recent clampdown on Nigerian businesses in Ghana by the Ghanaian authorities. He spoke through a press statement made available to the media. Obi, who said such actions negated the true spirit…