LAGOS NOVEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Executive Director of the Civil Society Legislative and Advocacy Centre, CISLAC, Comrade Auwal Musa Rafsanjani has charged governments, anti-graft and law enforcement agencies in the African continent to ensure that the original victims of stolen assets are given back assets stolen from their states when recovered. Speaking at the Global…
LAGOS JULY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Some families in Kenya are eating just once a day, or not at all, because of rising food prices, writes the BBC’s Catherine Byaruhanga in Nairobi. Early in the morning, I find Florence Kambua hunched over, digging through the dump site outside her front door to collect plastic, glass, clothes – anything…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Police in Kenya have launched an investigation after a BBC staff member was found dead in the capital Nairobi. Kate Mitchell, a British national who worked for BBC Media Action in a number of African countries, died on Friday. BBC Media Action is the corporation’s international charity, and its projects focus on…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s former president, Goodluck Jonathan, who is a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), may have deliberately avoided the just-concluded PDP National Convention in Abuja. Mr Jonathan said on Friday he was leaving Abuja on Saturday for Nairobi, Kenya, to attend the African Union retreat on the promotion of peace, security…
LAGOS APRIL 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The governor of Kenya’s capital Nairobi has distributed bottles of cognac to the poor, saying it protects against the new coronavirus, though the drink maker and national government chided him for propagating a myth. Cognac is a specific type of brandy, an alcoholic beverage produced from distilled white wine. Mike Mbuvi Sonko,…
LAGOS DECEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Wildlife officials in Kenya’s capital city of Nairobi are searching for a stray lion that reportedly mauled a man to death in recent days outside a national park. With the predator on the loose, the Kenya Wildlife Service has urged residents to avoid walking at night until it is captured, Kenyans.co.ke reported….
LAGOS MARCH 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian woman, 25 years-old Princess Okoye excreted fifteen pellets of cocaine at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi on Sunday, The lady who was travelling to Italy was reported to have equally hid 77 pellets of suspected narcotics in packets that had been hidden in two bottles of milk. “Upon…