LAGOS APRIL 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A chemical attack on a rebel-held town in eastern Ghouta killed dozens of people, a medical relief organization and a rescue service said, and Washington said the reports – if confirmed – would demand an immediate international response. Medical relief organization Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS) said 41 people had been killed,…
LAGOS MARCH 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The chances of President Donald Trump facing an impeachment trial after a month of very poor press coverage have increased and reached their highest point in all of 2018, according to oddsmakers. Political and financial futures site PredictIt showed that the cost of one “Yes” share, which predicted Trump would face impeachment…
LAGOS MARCH 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Russia gave official notice to 60 US diplomats to leave the country by April 5 in response to Washington’s expulsion of 60 Russian officials earlier this week. According to a statement by the Russian foreign ministry released on Thursday, 58 of those expelled served at the US embassy in Moscow and two…
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)-US President Donald Trump decided Tuesday to end the protected status of thousands of Liberian migrants to the United States and gave them a year to leave the country. It’s the latest of similar moves, after more than 250,000 Salvadorans, Haitians and Nicaraguans lost their protected status under an administration which has…
LAGOS MARCH 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Though the Federal Government pegged the exchange rate at N305.25 to a dollar, the American Consulate in Nigeria exchanged N400 to a dollar in visa application fees for one fiscal year, until yesterday. This was deduced from the visa fees and exchange rate published on the website of the American Consulate:http://www.ustraveldocs.com/ng/ng-niv-visafeeinfo.asp. Consequently,…
LAGOS MARCH 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Trump administration on Monday ordered the expulsion of 60 Russian diplomats and the closing of Moscow’s last diplomatic outpost on the West Coast, part of a coordinated effort with U.S. allies to punish Russia for an attack in Britainusing a deadly nerve agent. The action, which involved a larger number of…
LAGOS MARCH 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Charging ahead with the dramatic remaking of his White House, President Donald Trump said Thursday he would replace national security adviser H.R. McMaster with the former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton, a foreign policy hawk entering a White House facing key decisions on Iran and North Korea. After weeks of speculation about McMaster’s…