LAGOS NOVEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A group of Black voters in Detroit announced they are suing President Donald Trump and his campaign, alleging the targeted effort to overturn the election repeats one of the “worst abuses in our nation’s history” by attempting to disenfranchise African American voters. Specifically, the suit takes issue with the campaign’s effort to…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Justice Ayo Salami panel has recommended the sack of Ibrahim Magu, a commissioner of police, as the acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), TheCable can report. The panel, which submitted its report to President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday, also asked the president to appoint a new EFCC…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 elections, Mr. Peter Obi, has called on the government to partner with the church and other progressive organisations in driving forward human development in society. Obi made this call while addressing newsmen at Nsukka during the dedication of St…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than three people including a Customs officer, military personnel and a civilian were reportedly killed when some men of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) clashed with some smugglers in Igbo-Ora town in Oyo state. It was gathered that the three persons died following a clash between Customs personnel from the Federal…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Attempts by the Ogun State Government to prevent cholera from killing schoolchildren in the state have boomeranged after it went awry. An exercise initiated to deworm no fewer than 700,000 schoolchildren in 14 local government areas of the state this year has allegedly taken the lives of two pupils who were given…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Venezuelans fed up with fuel shortages have begun tapping into the country’s crude oil pipelines to distill their own petrol as the country’s economic demise accelerates. The emerging practice was documented by a Reuters investigation that found desperate Venezuelans breaking holes in pipes and siphoning off crude oil and diverting it to…
LAGOS November 22nd (newsrangers)-Five escaping prisoners died on Saturday when their car hit a tree after more than 60 detainees broke out of a Lebanese detention centre outside the capital Beirut, Lebanon’s Internal Security Forces (ISF) said in a statement. The ISF statement did not say how the 69 prisoners had escaped from the facility,…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-President Donald Trump is considering an executive action to target birthright citizenship in his final weeks in office, according to two sources who spoke with The Hill in a report published on Friday. Birthright citizenship is the policy whereby anyone who is born in the US is immediately granted citizenship, regardless of…
