LAGOS JUNE 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two powerful earthquakes struck Venezuela on June 24, collapsing buildings in the capital of Caracas and prompting scientists to warn of potentially heavy casualties and widespread destruction across the South American nation. The first quake occurred at around 6:04 p.m. local time about 15 miles east-northeast of San Felipe, Venezuela, data from…
LAGOS JUNE 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The United States has designated a Nigerian national and three companies operating in the country as alleged financial facilitators of activities linked to the terrorist group, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. They were designated in the latest action, which targeted a total of three individuals and six entities accused of…
LAGOS JUNE22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Keir Starmer has announced he will resign as Labour leader and step down as U.K. prime minister. Starmer confirmed on Monday morning that he will quit following weeks of mounting speculation amid falling poll numbers and growing unrest within the ruling Labour Party. He said he had informed King Charles of his…
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A French appeals court on Friday confirmed that Moroccan football star Achraf Hakimi will face trial for the alleged rape of a woman in 2023, which the Paris Saint-Germain defender denies. In February 2023, a woman then aged 24 told police in the Val-de-Marne region southeast of Paris that Hakimi had raped…
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The boyfriend of a Citibank Vice President who was beaten to death in her southeast London flat has been arrested after more than a year on the run. Brian Kiprop Kiplagat was arrested on June 10 after being intercepted by immigration officers at the border of Namanga as he attempted to cross…
LAGOS JUNE 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 42 South African nationals, who were living in Ireland illegally, have been deported back to Johannesburg, and arrived on Friday in a chartered flight. The deportees included nine men, 18 women, and 15 children. The children were deported as part of their family units. They departed from Dublin…
LAGOS JUNE 19TH (NEWRANGERS)-Equatorial Guinea’s government has resigned after failing to meet its objectives, Vice-President Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue said. Obiang, who is also the son of President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, said the prime minister had presented the resignation of all members of the government because it had barely reached 10% of its targets….
LAGOS JUNE 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, has been cleared of all bribery charges brought against her by British prosecutors after a jury at a London court returned not-guilty verdicts on Wednesday. Mrs Alison-Madueke, who served as Nigeria’s petroleum minister between 2010 and 2015 under former President Goodluck Jonathan, was acquitted…