LAGOS JANUARY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Religious freedom violations by totalitarian and repressive governments are widespread, but an uptick in violations and threats to religious freedom within and from democracies has advocates increasingly concerned. Several speakers and events Wednesday at the International Religious Freedom (IRF) Summit — the world’s premier annual gathering of international religious freedom advocates and […]
LAGOS FEBRUARY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A small plane crashed at a Florida mobile home park on Thursday, killing several people aboard the plane and in one home, fire officials said. The pilot of the single-engine Beechcraft Bonanza V35 reported an engine failure shortly before the aircraft went down at about 7 p.m., the Federal Aviation Administration reported. […]
LAGOS AUGUST 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected two key demands Hamas has made during indirect cease-fire talks, saying Israel will not withdraw from the Gaza Strip or release thousands of jailed militants. During an event Tuesday in the occupied West Bank, Netanyahu again vowed that the war would not end without Israel’s […]
LAGOS JANUARY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has charged a United States citizen with money laundering after he acted as a middleman to funnel millions of dollars in kickbacks from Nigerian romance scams and business email compromises, the U.S. Department of Justice has said. Niselio Barros Garcia, a Florida man, admitted guilt to […]
LAGOS JANUARY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)An extensive investigation conducted by Swedish Radio News has uncovered a scheme in which scrapped cars from Sweden are being illegally exported and sold in Nigeria. The investigation identified 50 different Swedish cars, now on sale in Nigeria, with falsified information regarding their mileage and age. According to the report, “A car […]
LAGOS JANUARY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The ruling military government in Niger has expelled several members of the European civilian reconstruction mission EUCAP Sahel Niger from the country. The German head of the mission, Katja Dominik, was also affected, the government in Niamey said early Tuesday. The group arrived in the capital Niamey a few days ago and […]
LAGOS JANUARY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria on Monday said the “unelected” military authorities in Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso were letting their people down with their joint decision to leave the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). Nigeria, which is the current chair of the political and economic bloc, was commenting for the first time on […]
LAGOS JANUARY 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Monthslong tension between three coup-hit countries in West Africa and the regional bloc known as ECOWAS boiled over when the nations announced their immediate withdrawal from the bloc and accused it of a lack of support and “inhumane” coup-related sanctions. In their joint statement on Sunday, the juntas of Niger, Mali and […]
LAGOS JANUARY 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-This was the day that President Joe Biden and his team had feared for more than three months, the day that relatively low-level attacks by Iranian proxy groups on U.S. troops in the Middle East turned deadly and intensified the pressure on the president to respond in kind. With three U.S. service […]
LAGOS JANUARY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The military regimes in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger on Sunday announced their immediate withdrawal from the West African bloc ECOWAS, saying it has become a threat to member states. The leaders of the three Sahel nations issued a statement saying it was a “sovereign decision” to leave the Economic Community of […]
