LAGOS JUNE 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian president, Bola Tinubu, will be attending the Global Financing Pact Summit in Paris, France, next week, SaharaReporters has learnt. This is Tinubu’s first official trip as Nigerian president since his May 29 inauguration as top sources in the presidency revealed that the president’s visit was also a “strategy” to see his…
LAGOS JUNE 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Senegal has temporarily closed its consulates abroad following attacks on diplomatic missions in Bordeaux, Milan, Paris and New York among others, the foreign affairs ministry said on Tuesday. The closures were announced in the wake of deadly unrest that broke out after a leading opposition figure, Ousmane Sonko, was handed a two-year…
LAGOS MAY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Thousands of people, including many undocumented migrants, marched in Paris and other French cities Saturday, protesting planned changes to immigration laws and evictions from the Indian Ocean island of Mayotte. In the French capital, demonstrators marched behind a banner proclaiming “No to the Darmanin law. Against repression, imprisonment and deportations, for a…
LAGOS APRIL 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian investigative journalist and Global Peace Ambassador and Hunter of Corrupt politicians, Mr. Jackson Ude has alleged that President elect, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, whose whereabout has been unknown since he travelled out of the country has been hospitalized at the American Hospital in Paris. In a tweet, the journalist on Tuesday,…
LAGOS MARCH 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Guinea have halted the Olympic Eagles’ dreams of featuring at the U-23 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON). The loss also means the U-23 Eagles will not participate in the football event at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. The Salisu Yusuf side fell 2-0 against Guinea in the second leg of their final…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday arrived in Paris, the French capital, for a one-day official visit as guest of President Emmanuel Macron at Palais de l’Élysée, and will afterwards attend the three-day Paris Peace Forum (PPF), which holds between November 11 and 13. A statement by Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi…
LAGOS AUGUST 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Lionel Messi joined star-packed Paris St Germain on Tuesday after leaving Barcelona, the club where he had begun and expected to end his career. Messi, a six-times winner of the Ballon d’Or for Europe’s best soccer player, signed a two-year contract with an option for a third year, the club said in…
LAGOS MAY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Europe’s biggest bank, BNP-Paribas, has been charged with “laundering” tens of millions of euros worth of public money in France for the family of Gabon’s late leader Omar Bongo, in what plaintiffs have called a “historic first”. After decades of relative impunity, French courts have in recent years sought to clamp down…