LAGOS AUGUST 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s records with United States law enforcement agencies has taken another turn with opposition parties demanding that the documents be made public. The African Democratic Congress (ADC) and the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) have questioned the President’s decision to oppose the release of the records, insisting that Nigerians…
LAGOS AUGUST 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos Zonal Directorate 2 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday, August 26, facilitated the extradition of the duo of Mudashiru Afeez Olawale and Adebola Festus Adekunle to the United States of America, U.S., to face prosecution for allegedly sexu@lly extorting two teenage boys in the U.S.,…
LAGOS AUGUST 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-An aspiring lawyer and beloved taekwondo world champion has tragically been found dead at 19 years old. Isabelle Sava, a black belt and law student at Queen Mary University in Mile End, East London, was tragically found dead this week. She is believed to have died from cardiac arrest in her…
LAGOS AUGUST 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI, has submitted records relating to President Bola Tinubu’s 1993 drug-trafficking and money-laundering case to Beryl Howell, a judge of the US District Court for the District of Columbia. Peoples Gazette reports that the FBI hand-delivered the records to the court on Friday and requested that they remain under…
LAGOS AUGUST 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Council for the Safeguarding of the Homeland (CNSP), the ruling military Junta in Niger Republic, says soldiers within its military forces attempted a coup on Saturday. Heavy gunfire and explosions were reported early Saturday morning in several parts of Niamey, Niger’s capital city. The assailants targeted the city’s Diori Hamani…
LAGOS AUGUST 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Bola Tinubu has filed a challenge in a US court to prevent the U.S. Department of Justice, FBI and DEA from releasing records linked to allegations of drug trafficking. The records are being sought by American transparency activist Aaron Greenspan, who filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against several…
LAGOS AUGUST 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former president of Ecuador has been sentenced to five years in prison after being found guilty of taking bribes. Lenín Moreno insisted he had not taken money from a Chinese firm which secured a contract to build a hydroelectric plant in the Latin American nation. The 73-year-old will serve his sentence…
LAGOS AUGUST 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-LAGOS AUGUST 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)– At least eight people died and 17 were missing after a ferry carrying around 270 passengers and crew capsized off north Cyprus on Sunday, leaving survivors clinging to its overturned hull. The privately owned ferry left the port of Kyrenia at 12:30 p.m. (0930 GMT) and immediately started…
