Category archives for: International

Twenty-Two States Drag Trump To Court Over  Birthright Citizenship Order

LAGOS JANUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Attorneys general from 22 states sued President Trump in two federal district courts on Tuesday to block an executive order that refuses to recognize the U.S.-born children of unauthorized immigrants as citizens, the opening salvo in what promises to be a long legal battle over the Trump administration’s immigration policies. Eighteen states […]

Popular Iranian Pop Star Sentenced To Death For ‘Blasphemy’

LAGOS JANUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-An Iranian court has reportedly sentenced tattooed pop star Amir Hossein Maghsoudloo, known as Tataloo, to death for blasphemy. The 37-year-old singer has been in detention in Iran since December 2023 after being extradited from Turkey. Multiple Iranian media sources, including the Iranian newspapers Etemad and Jame Jam, reported on Sunday that […]

USA Authorities Auction Luxury Wristwatch, Necklace Seized From Jailed Ogun State Official

LAGOS JANUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Authorities in the United States have auctioned a luxury wristwatch and a necklace seized from Abidemi Rufai, a former Ogun State official who served a jail term in the United States of America.  The United States District Court for Western Tacoma in Washington jailed Abidemi Rufai on 26 September 2022 for wire fraud and […]

Why Kumuyi, Nathaniel Bassey  Attend Trump’s Inauguration

LAGOS JANUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Two high-profile Nigerian clerics took part in events surrounding the inauguration of US President Donald Trump on Monday. The visits of Pastors William Kumuyi and Nathaniel Bassey served to underscore the ties between Christian evangelicalism and the incoming US administration. Trump could leverage his popularity among some religious Christians on the African […]

Trump Restores Death Penalty For Illegal Immigrants, Heinous Crimes

LAGOS JANUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-On Monday, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order reinstating the death penalty for severe crimes. According to reports, Trump signed nearly 200 executive actions, memoranda, and proclamations on his first day in office, undoing many policies of his predecessor, Joe Biden. The executive order, titled “Restoring the Death Penalty and Protecting […]

Over 66 Dead, 51 Injured Following Horrific Fire At Turkey Popular Ski Resort

LAGOS JANUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than  66 people have died and more than 50 were injured following a horrific fire at a popular ski resort, the Associated Press reported. The blaze erupted on Tuesday morning around 3:30 a.m. local time at Turkey’s Kartalkaya ski resort, a 12-story hotel situated in the Köroğlu Mountains within the […]

Kemi Badenoch Renews Onsluaght Against Nigeria, Says ‘Nigeria Destroys Lives’

LAGOS JANUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Leader of UK’s Conservative Party, Kemi Badenoch, has renewed her onslaught against Nigeria. The Nigerian-born politician dominated the headlines towards the end of last year over controversial remarks about her birth country. While delivering her first speech of the year at an event organised by Onward, a British think tank producing research […]

Panic As Trump Administration Plans Mass Arrest Of Undocumented Immigrants Next Week

LAGOS JANUARY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-US immigration authorities will carry out mass arrests of undocumented immigrants across the country on Tuesday, a top border official in the incoming administration of Donald Trump has said. The move would be among the first by Republican Trump, who returns to the White House on Monday, to uphold a campaign pledge […]

Gunman Kills Two Judges, Injures One, Kills Himself Outside Iran’s Supreme Court

LAGOS JANUARY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two judges were killed in a shooting attack on Saturday outside the Supreme Court building in Tehran, state media reported. “Three judges of the Supreme Court were targeted. Two of them were martyred and one was injured,” the judiciary’s Mizan Online website reported, adding that the “assailant killed himself.” Alarabiya News For […]

Biden Commutes Sentences Of  2,500 Inmates Convicted Of  Crack Cocaine Offences

LAGOS JANUARY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Biden on Friday commuted the sentences of nearly 2,500 federal inmates convicted of crack cocaine offenses — as roughly the same number of marijuana prisoners await word on whether he will honor his campaign pledge to free them. The White House didn’t say whether the latest clemency recipients would be released immediately or […]

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