LAGOS DECEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Hundreds of passengers are facing Christmas travel chaos as 90 flights from Heathrow Airport are cancelled and 200 more delayed amid weather warnings for strong wind. A Heathrow spokesperson said ‘a small number of flights’ have been cancelled on Saturday due to ‘strong winds and airspace restrictions’. They added: ‘This will ensure…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Member APC Transition Committee, Edo State, Prince Kassim Afegbua has accused the out-going governor of Edo State, Mr. Godwin Obaseki gor making hundreds of fresh appointments into the state civil service barely six days to end of his tenure. The new appointees are largely his former special assistants that he hurriedly recruited…
LAGOS OCTOBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers could be trapped in a besieged town as Russian forces complete their encirclement and close in. In a desperate plea, one Ukrainian soldier described how evacuation routes out of Vuhledar had been cut and food, ammunition and fuel were running low. “The situation in Vuhledar is, to put…
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 JANUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Hundreds of people marched through the streets of Burkina Faso’s capital Tuesday in a show of support for the new military-led junta that ousted democratically elected President Roch Marc Christian Kabore and seized control of the country. Days of gunfire and uncertainty in Ouagadougou ended Monday evening when more than a dozen…