LAGOS JANUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-According to a recent list released by Forbes Magazine, South African Business Mogul, John Rupert has dethroned Nigerian Aliko Dangote to emerge as the richest man in Africa. In the ranking, Johann Rupert & family’s wealth went from $10.7 billion to $10.3 billion to emerge as Africa’s richest man. This saw Aliko…
LAGOS JANUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-U.S. prosecutors in Manhattan unveiled criminal charges against a Nigerian fintech businessman who recently bid unsuccessfully for an English Premier League soccer team, saying he lied to investors about his companies’ finances. Odogwu Banye Mmobuosi, 45, the former co-chief executive officer of Tingo Group (TIO.O), was charged with securities fraud, making false…
LAGOS JANUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Moroccan police, in collaboration with Spanish security forces, have confiscated 1.488 tonnes (3,280lb) of cocaine in a joint operation. The illicit substance was concealed within banana boxes inside a shipping container on a vessel originating from South America en route to Turkey. The seizure occurred on Tuesday at the Tanger Med port…
LAGOS JANUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma has been charged with four counts of treason in connection with an attempted coup. Last November, gunmen broke into a military armoury and several prisons in Freetown, freeing almost 2,000 inmates. He has denied any involvement in the attack which killed about 20 people. West…
LAGOS JANUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Explosions at an event honoring a prominent Iranian general slain in a U.S. airstrike in 2020 have killed at least 103 people and wounded over 140 others, state-run media in Iran reported Wednesday. A senior official called the blasts a “terroristic” attack, without elaborating on who could be behind them amid wider…
LAGOS JANUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A passenger plane carrying nearly 400 people burst into a ball of fire at a Tokyo airport Tuesday when it collided with a coast guard jet — killing at least five crew members taking aid to victims of a deadly earthquake. Horrifying video showed the Japan Airlines plane suddenly burst into flames…
LAGOS JANUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A Dhaka court sentenced Muhammad Yunus — who won the Nobel Peace Prize for pioneering microloans to some of Bangladesh’s poorest — to 6 months in jail for labor law violations. A labor inspector had found that employees of Grameen Telecom, of which Yunus, 83, is chairman, were denied benefits including leave…
LAGOS JANUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Saleh al-Arouri, a top Hamas leader and a linchpin between the group and terrorist affiliates in Iran and Hezbollah, was killed in an Israeli strike in the Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh, according to Lebanon’s state-run news agency and the Hezbollah-linked al-Mayadeen media outlet. Arouri, who had a $5 million U.S. information bounty…
