LAGOS JUNE22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Keir Starmer has announced he will resign as Labour leader and step down as U.K. prime minister. Starmer confirmed on Monday morning that he will quit following weeks of mounting speculation amid falling poll numbers and growing unrest within the ruling Labour Party. He said he had informed King Charles of his…
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A French appeals court on Friday confirmed that Moroccan football star Achraf Hakimi will face trial for the alleged rape of a woman in 2023, which the Paris Saint-Germain defender denies. In February 2023, a woman then aged 24 told police in the Val-de-Marne region southeast of Paris that Hakimi had raped…
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The boyfriend of a Citibank Vice President who was beaten to death in her southeast London flat has been arrested after more than a year on the run. Brian Kiprop Kiplagat was arrested on June 10 after being intercepted by immigration officers at the border of Namanga as he attempted to cross…
LAGOS JUNE 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 42 South African nationals, who were living in Ireland illegally, have been deported back to Johannesburg, and arrived on Friday in a chartered flight. The deportees included nine men, 18 women, and 15 children. The children were deported as part of their family units. They departed from Dublin…
LAGOS JUNE 19TH (NEWRANGERS)-Equatorial Guinea’s government has resigned after failing to meet its objectives, Vice-President Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue said. Obiang, who is also the son of President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, said the prime minister had presented the resignation of all members of the government because it had barely reached 10% of its targets….
LAGOS JUNE 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, has been cleared of all bribery charges brought against her by British prosecutors after a jury at a London court returned not-guilty verdicts on Wednesday. Mrs Alison-Madueke, who served as Nigeria’s petroleum minister between 2010 and 2015 under former President Goodluck Jonathan, was acquitted…
LAGOS JUNE 17TH (NEWSRAGERS)-Nearly four months after the U.S. and Israel started its war with Iran, Donald Trump is working to secure a long-awaited deal to end the war, restore global shipping and resolve an abiding dispute over Tehran’s nuclear programme. The U.S. president was quick to celebrate an interim deal agreed over the…
LAGOS JUNE 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A suspected international fraudster, Osondu Victor Igwilo, popularly known as ‘Ezeego King of the Boys,’ has reportedly been extradited from Nigeria to the United States to face allegations linked to a multi-million-dollar fraud scheme. Sources familiar with the matter told SaharaReporters that Igwilo was extradited on Monday afternoon from the Kuje Custodial…