LAGOS MAY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)— Israeli soldiers shot and killed at least 41 Palestinians during mass protests along the Gaza border on Monday. It was the deadliest day there since a devastating 2014 cross-border war and cast a pall over Israel’s festive inauguration of the new U.S. Embassy in contested Jerusalem. In a show of anger…
LAGOS MAY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Thousands of people demonstrated in central Paris on Saturday amid a heavy police presence to protest against President Emmanuel Macron’s sweeping reforms, a year after he came to office. Some 2,000 security forces including riot police were deployed as marchers gathered from midday in warm early summer sunshine in the central Opera…
LAGOS APRIL 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Street sweepers in Benin yesterday staged a protest demanding the payment of their outstanding salaries running into six months. The protesters who matched to the Secretariat of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) in Benin, said they were employed by the government which had not paid in the past six months. One…
LAGOS MARCH 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The crisis rocking the Diocese of the Lagos Anglican Communion deepened with a serious protest during the Good Friday Easter service at the Church of Christ on Marina, Lagos. The information was said to have caused serious tension in all the parishes of the church in Lagos. The church service, NewsRangers learnt…
LAGOS MARCH 30TH (NEWSRANGERS) – Rallying behind the slogan of “Ghana First,” thousands of people in the West African nation have protested a new defense cooperation deal with the United States, with many in the longtime U.S. ally saying they worry the expanded military presence could attract extremists and harm their country’s sovereignty. The demonstrations…
LAGOS MARCH 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The secretariat of Ikeja branch of the Nigerian Bar Association was invaded on Wednesday by security men made up police and men of the Department of State Security, DSS. The invasion which was carried out against the backdrop of the NBA’s plan to lead a protest against the new tax regime in…