LAGOS AUGUST 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-It is no longer news that the Islamist Movement and Military organization known as Taliban has taken control of key facilities and cities in Afghanistan after taking control of the country’s capital, Kabul. This recent development occured after the US government withdrew it’s military forces away from the country in honour of…
LAGOS AUGUST 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Islamic police force in Kano, a Muslim-majority state in Nigeria, has raised eyebrows after it ordered shops to only use headless mannequins to advertise clothing. “Islam frowns on idolatry,” Haruna Ibn-Sina, the commander of the Sharia police known as the hisbah, told the BBC. “With the head on it looks like…
LAGOS AUGUST 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian importers have continued to further hit in losses running into billions of naira on their cargoes trapped at Benin Republic borders. Daily Sun learnt that the situation forced some importers to pay additional costs to reroute the goods via Togo port to Nigeria. Last month, the government of the Republic of Benin…
LAGOS AUGUST 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former African champions, Nigeria’s Super Eagles, have dropped two places to the 34th position in the current FIFA ranking. The Gernot Rohr lads polled 1480 points to sit 34th in the world and fifth in Africa in the ranking released on Thursday. On the continent, Nigeria is behind Senegal, Tunisia, Algeria and…
LAGOS AUGUST 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Twelve people have been killed and 48 wounded in clashes between fishermen and herders in northern Cameroon, the region’s governor said on Thursday. The violence, which is rare between the two communities, erupted on Tuesday in Logone-Birni in the Far North region, a tongue of land wedged between Nigeria to the west…
LAGOS AUGUST 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria will soon lift its ban on Twitter after resolving some of its differences with the social media platform, Information Minister Lai Mohammed said on Wednesday, signalling the end of a policy widely condemned as an affront to freedom of expression. The Nigerian government suspended Twitter on June 4 after it removed…
LAGOS AUGUST 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 816 people were reported to have died of Cholera disease infection within a month in Nigeria. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) who made the disclosure in a statement made available to NewsRangers said between the 1st of January and 1st of August 2021, 31,425 suspected cases of…
LAGOS AUGUST 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Having witnessed its worst recession in half a century in 2020, Africa’s economy is forecast to grow at a healthy pace of 3.8% in 2021 driven by rising global demand as restrictions are eased, untapped market opportunities, a rebound in commodity prices and a rise in oil prices. Leading data and analytics…
