LAGOS APRIL 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former President Donald Trump has sued Michael Cohen, his former attorney and “fixer” who has emerged as a key witness in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s criminal case against Trump, for $500 million — alleging that Cohen “spread falsehoods” about him and violated a confidentiality agreement. The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in federal court…
LAGOS APRIL 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Utah father who killed his five kids, wife and mother-in-law and then shot himself left a suicide note saying he’d rather “rot in hell’ than “put up” with his “manipulative” spouse another day. Michael Haight, 42, was being investigated for child abuse when he shot his family earlier this year and…
LAGOS APRIL 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Pope Francis presided at one indoor service on Good Friday, but doctors ordered him to skip an outdoor evening “Way of the Cross” procession at Rome’s Colosseum after being hospitalised last week for bronchitis. Francis was following the service from his residence in the Vatican as a precaution after the temperature fell…
LAGOS APRIL 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former President Trump used footage from last week’s arraignment in New York as part of a new campaign ad released on Thursday. Trump posted the ad on his Truth Social account, telling his followers that if they are “doing poorly,” they should not send him money, but if they are “doing well,”…
LAGOS APRIL 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Emmanuel Macron of France and Xi Jinping, China’s top leader, appealed on Thursday for a rapid return to peace talks to end the war in Ukraine, but Mr. Xi did not indicate whether he would use his close relationship with Moscow to push Russia to negotiate. Greeted with great pomp at…
LAGOS APRIL 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-On a historic and unprecedented day for America, former president Donald Trump has been arrested and arraigned at a Lower Manhattan courthouse on criminal charges relating to a hush money payment made to adult film star Stormy Daniels. He pleaded ‘not guilty’ to 34 counts against him before Judge Juan Merchan shortly…
LAGOS APRIL 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Obidients, a sobriquet for supporters of Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party, have staged a protest at the White House and Capitol Hill in the United States of America (USA). POLITICS NIGERIA reports that the protesters described the 2023 election in Nigeria which produced Bola Ahmed Tinubu as president-elect, as…
LAGOS APRIL 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The woman suspected of assassinating a propagandist has confessed to delivering a bomb hidden inside a statuette, as her husband claimed the 26-year-old was “set up” by Russia’s FSB. Speculation has swirled over who was behind the explosion in St Petersburg that killed Vladen Tatarsky, with the security services of Ukraine and…