LAGOS SEPTEMBE 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Leicester City forward Kelechi Iheanacho scored twice as Nigeria beat Liberia 2-0 in Lagos on Friday to go top of an African World Cup qualifying group. He struck after 21 and 45 minutes for a nation that has competed at six of the last seven World Cup tournaments, without ever getting past…
LAGOS JULY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than seven people are missing after a cargo ship that had been barred from sailing sank off the coast of Liberia, the country’s Maritime Commissioner said on Sunday. The Liberian-registered Niko Ivanka left the capital Monrovia on Saturday morning for a port in the country’s south, despite being under a…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-While the Peace Airline continues to evacuate Nigerians from South Africa, up to 30 per cent of the population affected is returning home while a great number of them have already taken their business activities to other African countries. Saturday Telegraph gathered that the population of Nigerians in Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Liberia and…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A fire at an Islamic school in Liberia has killed at least 27 children, police said on Wednesday. “The kids were learning the Koran when the fire broke out,” police spokesman Moses Carter said. He added the blaze was caused by an electrical issue and that further investigations were ongoing. Carter had…
LAGOS JULY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)- – Hundreds of demonstrators clashed with police in Liberia’s capital Monrovia on Wednesday during a march against corruption and economic mismanagement under former footballer turned president George Weah. Police fired tear gas to stop the demonstrators from approaching the parliament building in Monrovia, an AFP reporter at the scene said, while…
LAGOS JULY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday in Monrovia, Liberia received the country’s highest award and expressed his resolve to continue to strengthen cooperation within the West African sub region. Malam Garba Shehu, the President’s spokesman, who confirmed this development in a statement in Abuja, said Buhari was honoured during the 172nd independence anniversary…
LAGOS JUNE 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Authorities in Liberia have blocked the internet in what is perceived to be a move to suppress ongoing anti-government protests in the capital, Monrovia. Netblocks, an organisation that monitors internet disruptions and shutdowns, confirmed the shutdown on Friday afternoon, saying access to social networking platforms Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram and Snapchat had…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Rodney D Sieh, editor of Liberia’s FrontPageAfrica, reflects on what his career says about the state of journalism in West Africa. “My claim to infamy was being sentenced to 5,000 years in prison for failing to pay libel damages of $1.6m (£1.2m) won by a former minister who sued my paper after…