LAGOS APRIL 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nearly 20 million people face a food crisis in West Africa and the Sahel region as the vast area is torn by conflicts and the coronavirus pandemic, experts warned Thursday. The situation could worsen between June and August, with as many as 27 million people needing immediate food aid, or nearly one…
LAGOS MARCH 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The massive container ship blocking the width of the Suez Canal has other vessels weighing the lengthy, costly, and perilous decision of whether to detour around Africa instead. As demonstrated in this story by Insider’s Mia Jankowicz, the sea route from the Red Sea to the east Mediterranean is a journey of…
LAGOS AUGUST 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-On Friday, August 21, the United Nations(UN) said it had gained access to Mali’s ousted president while rebel troops said they had released two other detained leaders, in developments that followed mounting international pressure on the new junta. “Last night, a team from MINUSMA Human Rights went to Kati in the framework…
LAGOS JANUARY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-U.S. Consul General Claire Pierangelo on Tuesday reiterated the importance of Nigeria’s entrepreneurs to the continued growth of economies in the West African sub-region and the prosperity of the continent. Speaking at a one-day capacity-building seminar for the first cohort of U.S. sponsored Tony Elumelu Foundation alumni, Ms. Pierangelo noted that population…
LAGOS DECEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerians may have to do without their favorite delicacy this Christmas. Jollof, a mixture of rice, tomatoes and spices, is practically a national dish in Nigeria. Africa’s most-populous country with almost 200 million people. It’s particularly coveted by the poor at Christmas and other festive periods, when increased demand for its ingredients…
LAGOS OCTOBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Tolaram Group, maker of Indomie Noodles, is building the biggest port in West Africa on the east side of Lagos with $1bn facility from China, according to the Financial Times. A report in Financial Times on Tuesday said the Singapore-based company was set to close financing this week for what could…
LAGOS JUNE 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Residents of towns and villages along the Opara Forest Reserve in Oyo State and Imeko Forest Reserve in Ogun State are living in fear following the invasion of the two reserves by herdsmen from African countries like Burkina Faso, Mali among others. Some residents of Imeko, Iwoye and Jabata told SUNDAY PUNCH…
LAGOS JUNE 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The immediate past National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, John Oyegun, has thown his weight behind former President Olusegun Obasanjo statement on ‘Fulanisation’ of Nigeria, saying he was the kind of leader Nigeria needs. Oyegun told New Telegraph that Obasanjo’s comment on “Islamisation and Fulanisation” might have been dramatized,…