LAGOS MARCH 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The former president of the Philippines is understood to be on a plane bound for The Hague after he was arrested by Interpol over the bloody “war on drugs” waged during his time in office. Rodrigo Duterte, 79, was taken into custody on Tuesday after he landed at Manila’s main airport on…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Police used water cannons to disperse crowds in Belgium’s capital after the mood turned sour during the country’s shock defeat to Morocco at the FIFA World Cup on Sunday. Even before the end of the match, “dozens of people, including some wearing hoodies, sought confrontation with the police, which compromised…
LAGOS JUNE 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Laurent Gbagbo, the former Ivory Coast president cleared by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity, on Monday slammed The Hague-based court as biased and “not serious”. Gbagbo’s first comments on the trial and his acquittal since his return to Ivory Coast after a 10-year absence, was met with rousing cheers…
LAGOS JANUARY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth, Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has applauded the decision of a Dutch Court of Appeal in favour four Bayelsa farmers impacted by oil spills. Dutch court on Friday ordered the Nigerian subsidiary of Shell to pay compensation over oil spills in Bayelsa. The Court of Appeal in The Hague …
LAGOS NOVEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Several shots were fired at the Saudi embassy in the Dutch city of The Hague but no one was hurt, police said on Thursday. “Just before 6am (0500 GMT) we received a message that a shot had been fired at a building in The Hague. There were no injuries,” police said on…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The widows of four Nigerian activists have opened a civil court case against oil company Shell, alleging it was complicit in the deaths of their husbands more than two decades ago. Esther Kiobel, Victoria Bera, Blessing Eawo and Charity Levula are seeking an apology and compensation in the case that opened Tuesday…
LAGOS JULY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari will on Sunday depart for the Netherlands to participate in activities to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the adoption of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), at The Hague. Mr Femi Adesina, the President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity made this known in a statement…