LAGOS MAY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The United States has imposed entry restrictions on more Nigerians for undermining the democratic process during the African nation’s 2023 election cycle, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Monday. “These individuals have been involved in intimidation of voters through threats and physical violence, the manipulation of vote results, and other…
LAGOS MAY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-World Animal Protection is deeply saddened and appalled by the recent incident in which six lions from Amboseli National Park were cruelly killed following an alleged break-in at the nearby Nashipa village in Kajiado Sub-County. This tragic event according to a statement signed by Communication and Multimedia Officer, World Animal Protection, Kipkorr…
LAGOS MAY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The clamour for reparations is growing louder. Last month, Laura Trevelyan announced that she is doing penance for the sins of her slave-owning ancestors by giving £100,000 to an economic development fund in Grenada. Having left the BBC, she began her campaign by challenging King Charles to apologise for William III’s investment…
LAGOS MAY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As the pressure to “decolonise” has grown throughout Britain’s educational and arts institutions, from showy renaming of buildings, whose benefactors have the slightest link with slavery, to trigger warnings about racial “slurs” in great works of literature, the move to send swathes of objects in British collections back to where they came from…
LAGOS MAY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The largest Colombian “narco sub” ever recorded — some 30 meters (100 feet) long and three meters wide — has been decommissioned in the Pacific, with three tons of cocaine found on board, the country’s navy reported Friday. The semi-submersible vessel was intercepted Tuesday on its way to Central America, one of…
LAGOS MAY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former President Donald Trump on Thursday formally signaled he would appeal the $5 million judgement against him in E. Jean Carroll’s lawsuit — as the writer’s attorneys said she’s thinking of suing him again. Trump, 76, was found liable of sexual abuse and defamation against Carroll, 79, by a Manhattan federal jury…
LAGOS MAY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Writer E. Jean Carroll was awarded $5 million Tuesday by a Manhattan jury that found former President Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming her — while clearing him of her rape claim. Carroll, 79, held her head down as the verdict was read in Manhattan federal court — and nodded…
LAGOS MAY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Aviation Structural Mechanic 3rd Class Ugochukwu Nene from Zaria, Kaduna, Nigeria makes wave in United States Navy. Nene who is attached to the “Golden Warriors” of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 87, conducts routine maintenance on an F/A-18E Super Hornet in the first-in-class aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford’s (CVN 78) hangar bay…