LAGOS MAY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Thousands of migrant care workers have been threatened with deportation, despite doing nothing wrong, after the Home Office took enforcement action against their employers. In one case, a brother and sister from India who paid a recruitment agency £18,000 to secure care jobs in the UK, only to find they had been…
LAGOS MAY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Some Ukrainian prisoners will be able to apply for early parole and join the army under a new law aimed at boosting Kyiv’s manpower in its fight against the Russian invasion. The new law will apply only to prisoners who have no more than three years left of their original sentences and…
LAGOS MAY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former senator and the acting mayor of a small Haiti town have been charged in the death of a journalist whose 2019 killing, amid the country’s deepening political crisis, sparked protests and calls for an investigation after he became the third journalist in the country killed in less than two years….
LAGOS MAY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ukrainian soldier dressed as a woman was arrested as he tried to flee to Romania to avoid combat on the front lines where Kyiv’s forces are heavily outnumbered. The 44-year-old, a listed soldier, attempted to cross the border in Transcarpathia but was apprehended, the Ukrainian border authorities. “Fashion bow, make-up with a…
LAGOS MAY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An historic intercontinental rail link is aiming to link Europe to Morocco with an ambitious underwater tunnel. The Moroccan National Company for Strait Studies (SNED) announced last week it is are starting feasibility research on a revived 40-year-old train project that can connect Europe and Africa by 2030. The project highlights a…
LAGOS MAY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-British authorities have started to detain migrants in preparation for them to be sent to Rwanda in the next nine to 11 weeks, the government said on Wednesday, laying the groundwork for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s flagship immigration policy. Parliament last month approved a law that paves the way for sending asylum…
LAGOS MAY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Yuki Gambaryan, the wife of the detained Binance Holdings Limited executive, Tigran Gambaryan, hass told the US Parliament that the Nigerian Government kept his husband, Tigran Gambaryan, in Kuje prison together with Boko Haram terrorists and bandits. Yuki, represented by her congressman, Rich McCormick, spoke at Tuesday’s House Foreign Affairs Committee roundtable…
LAGOS MAY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-On Monday, Liberian President, Joseph Boakai, appointed Major General Charles Johnson (retd.), as the Director of the National Security Agency, pending confirmation by the Liberian Senate His appointment is coming months after his resignation as Minister of National Defence. Before that, he led the Armed Forces of Liberia as its Chief of…
