LAGOS MAY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-France on Wednesday said it was imposing a state of emergency in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia for at least 12 days, boosting police deployments and banning video app TikTok in a bid to quell deadly unrest that has left four people dead. The emergency measures give authorities greater powers…
LAGOS APRIL 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The disquiet in the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) appears to have boiled following news of an alleged plot by Idris Isah Jere, the Acting Comptroller General of Immigration Services (CGIS) to extend his tenure for another one-year period. The CGI was due to have proceeded of retirement from service last year but…
LAGOS JULY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has left the Maldives on a Saudi airlines flight bound for Singapore, sources have told the BBC. The president had fled to the Maldives a day earlier amid mass protests over Sri Lanka’s economic crisis. It is not clear if Mr Rajapaksa will stay in Singapore or…
LAGOS APRIL 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)– Bus driver Christian did not sleep at all last night after Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari ordered an extension to the lockdown in his sprawling home city Lagos to halt the coronavirus. A few hours before the announcement on Monday evening, word spread that over a hundred youths from a criminal gang…
LAGOS DECEMBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Iran is experiencing its deadliest political unrest since the Islamic Revolution 40 years ago, with at least 180 people killed — and possibly hundreds more — as angry protests have been smothered in a government crackdown of unbridled force. It began two weeks ago with an abrupt increase of at least 50%…