LAGOS JULY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Pennsylvania’s highest court threw out Bill Cosby’s sexual assault conviction and released him from prison Wednesday in a stunning reversal of fortune for the comedian once known as “America’s Dad,” ruling that the prosecutor who brought the case was bound by his predecessor’s agreement not to charge Cosby. Cosby, 83, flashed the…
LAGOS JUNE 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An up and coming young Nigerian footballer, Kelvin Igweani, has been reportedly shot dead by the police in the United Kingdom. Dailymail reports that the shooting incident is currently being investigated by the Thame Valley Force after the Nigerian was shot dead by officers who attended a call-out to a house where…
LAGOS JUNE 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The demonstrators gathered outside the headquarters of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in London on Saturday, chanting, “Arrest Bill Gates! Arrest Bill Gates!” While it is not immediately clear what crime the protesters alleged Gates committed, some of the protesters held flags appearing to show a vaccine syringe with a red…
LAGOS JUNE 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-South Africa’s top court has jailed former president Jacob Zuma for “egregious” contempt of court after he refused to appear before a corruption investigation he himself set up. Mr Zuma, 79, was told to turn himself in within five days or face arrest in a landmark victory for rule-of-law campaigners who accuse…
LAGOS JUNE 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Laurent Gbagbo, the former Ivory Coast president cleared by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity, on Monday slammed The Hague-based court as biased and “not serious”. Gbagbo’s first comments on the trial and his acquittal since his return to Ivory Coast after a 10-year absence, was met with rousing cheers…
LAGOS JUNE 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ex-Nigerian international Yakubu Adamu has been arrested in Germany for allegedly setting a house in Chemnitz on fire, according to a report by Bild (via Germany-in24). Adamu, who spent a year in the Bundesliga with St. Pauli in the early 2000s, is believed to have committed the crime after he was seen…
LAGOS JUNE 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Russia has tested a giant new nuclear submarine in open waters for the first time, just days after a tense standoff in the Black Sea with Britain involving a Royal Navy destroyer. The ‘Belgorod’, believed to be the largest submarine developed anywhere in the world in 30 years, was trialled in the…
LAGOS JUNE 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Twenty-one men have been executed in Somalia’s semi-autonomous state of Puntland after they were convicted of being members of the Islamist militant group al-Shabab. They were sentenced by a military court in Galkayo and shot by a firing squad. State radio said 18 of the men had carried out assassinations and bombings…