LAGOS APRIL 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In St Peter’s Square, 250,000 mourners attended the funeral of Pope Francis to pay their final respects. The powerful and the marginalised were brought together to say a final farewell to a man who “touched minds and hearts” and wanted to “build bridges, not walls”, as Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re said of…
LAGOS APRIL 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Donald Trump has said Volodymyr Zelensky shares the blame with Russian President Vladimir Putin for “millions of people dead” in the Ukraine war. The US president was responding to reporters’ questions during a meeting with El Salvador’s leader at the White House. “When you start a war you got to know you…
LAGOS MARCH 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Amid the intensified Russia-Ukraine war and amounting to a major setback for Ukrainian forces, on Tuesday, March 8, Ukraine’s former President Viktor Yanukovych urged incumbent President Volodymyr Zelensky to call off the resistance and stop combatting foreign troops. Diluting the Kremlin-led full-fledged invasion of Ukraine, the ousted Head of State of Ukraine concluded that the ongoing…
LAGOS MARCH 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday issued a dire appeal for help as Russia’s attacks across the country intensified. “The end of the world has arrived,” Zelensky said during a televised news conference in Kyiv. He appealed to Western leaders who have resisted calls to set up a no-fly zone over Ukraine….