LAGOS JANUARY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-On Thursday afternoon, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 was struck down by an Iranian surface-to-air missile on Wednesday. “We have intelligence from multiple sources…including our own intelligence, that the plane was shot down by an Iranian surface-to-air missile,” Trudeau said. “This may well have been unintentional.” Foreign…
LAGOS JANUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Iran was struck by two earthquakes near a nuclear power plant on Wednesday after a chaotic day that saw the country launch missiles at two U.S. military bases in Iraq before a passenger plane crashed and killed dozens in an unrelated incident. According to the Washington Post, a 4.9 magnitude earthquake hit…
LAGOS JANUARY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Iran has fired more than a dozen ballistic missiles at two Iraqi bases housing American troops in a revenge attack for the U.S. drone strike that killed a top Iranian general. The Ain al-Asad airbase in western Iraq that was visited by Donald Trump in December 2018 and the Erbil base in Iraqi Kurdistan…
LAGOS JANUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The United States has cautioned its citizens to reconsider travelling to Nigeria. It spoke in response to Friday’s killing of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani in a drone airstrike. In a statement published on its website, the US Embassy in Nigeria admonished American citizens to maintain low profile and take personal security measures…
LAGOS DECEMBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Iran is experiencing its deadliest political unrest since the Islamic Revolution 40 years ago, with at least 180 people killed — and possibly hundreds more — as angry protests have been smothered in a government crackdown of unbridled force. It began two weeks ago with an abrupt increase of at least 50%…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari will depart Abuja on Friday to participate in the 5th Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) Summit in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea. The President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mr Garba Shehu, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday. He noted that apart from the Nigerian leader, the one-day…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Approximately 731 banks and 140 government sites were torched in recent unrest in Iran, Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli said in remarks published by the official IRNA news agency on Wednesday. More than 50 bases used by security forces were attacked and approximately 70 gas stations were also burned, he said, without…
LAGOS OCTOBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-WHAT kind of President is Muhammadu Buhari? In moments of national crisis, he abandons his duty post in preference for foreign trips of dubious value. Showing scant interest in domestic affairs, the President has embarked on another international trip, this time, to Sochi, Russia, for a three-day summit on gas and trade….