LAGOS SEPTEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)- Meet the man who is so obsessed with sueing. He was recently selected for an award by the Guinness World Record for having the biggest number of lawsuits in courts. He instead sued the Guinness World Record body too for involving him in their awards without his consent. There are many…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The United States has seized about $6.1 million belonging to Nigeria after a hired arms supplier pleaded guilty to charges including illegal dealing in military-grade weapons and money laundering, court documents reviewed by Peoples Gazette said. Judge Erica Grosjean of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California ordered the…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)- Sudanese authorities said they had foiled an attempted coup on Tuesday, accusing plotters loyal to ousted president Omar al-Bashir of a failed bid to derail the revolution that removed him from power in 2019 and ushered in a transition to democracy. Sudan’s military said 21 officers and a number of soldiers…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Haitian migrants had done well for themselves. Since leaving their country, many more than a decade ago, they had built lives in Chile, Brazil, Panama. They had homes and cars. They had stable jobs as bank tellers, welders, mine supervisors, gas station attendants. But they longed for the possibility of a…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has paid tribute to the new mayor of Johannesburg, following his death in a car crash aged 46. Jolidee Matongo had been campaigning with Mr Ramaphosa before the accident. His vehicle collided with a van while trying to avoid a pedestrian who had run on to the…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Algeria on Sunday buried Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the North African country’s longest-serving president, at a cemetery for its independence heroes, but without the honours accorded to his predecessors. Bouteflika died on Friday aged 84, after a career which took him from being the world’s youngest foreign minister to one of its oldest heads…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has died at 84, the presidency said on Friday, more than two years after he stepped down under pressure from mass protests and the army. Bouteflika, a veteran of Algeria’s war for independence, had ruled the North African country for two decades before his resignation in April…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-French officials announced overnight that their military forces had killed the top ISIS leader in Africa, a terrorist for whom the United States had offered a $5 million reward due to his connection to the deadly attack on a team of Green Berets in Niger four years ago. French President Emmanuel Macron…