LAGOS MAY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The student reporter who gained national acclaim when he interviewed President Barack Obama at the White House in 2009 has died of natural causes, his family says. Damon Weaver was 23 when he died May 1, his sister, Candace Hardy, told the Palm Beach Post. Further details were not released. He had…
LAGOS MAY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 120 retired US generals and admirals have published an open letter suggesting that Joe Biden was not legitimately elected as President and questioning his fitness for office. The letter, signed by 124 retired members of the armed forces calling themselves ‘Flag Officers 4 America’, said that America is “in…
LAGOS MAY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian churches have continued to receive widespread recognition with the latest coming from the daughter of renowned gospel singer, Cece Winans. In a video currently making waves on the internet, Ashley Philips who got married in September 2017 and recently gave birth to a baby boy, has revealed how statements of confession…
LAGOS MAY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-George Weah Jr, the son of the Liberian president George Weah, has been handed a six-month suspended sentence for disturbing the peace and noise pollution at his home just outside Paris. “This is a first warning but there won’t be a second,” said Judge Pascal Humbert-Massa at Versailles criminal court. Weah’s neighbours took him…
LAGOS MAY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The United States has said there is no plan to relocate its Africa Command from its current base in Germany to Nigeria or any other part of Africa despite the worsening state of insecurity in the region. The US gave the response barely two weeks after the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari…
LAGOS MAY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Cryptocurrencies “have no intrinsic value” and people who invest in them should be prepared to lose all their money; Bank of England (BOE) Governor Andrew Bailey said Thursday. Digital currencies like bitcoin, ether and even dogecoin have been on a tear this year; reminding some investors of the 2017 crypto bubble in which…
LAGOS MAY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday sentenced a former Ugandan child soldier who became a commander of the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) to 25 years in prison for crimes including rape, sexual enslavement, child abduction, torture and murder. Dominic Ongwen, who was taken into ICC custody in 2015, was convicted…
LAGOS MAY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A bloody, hourslong gunbattle in a Rio de Janeiro slum echoed into Friday, with authorities saying the police mission killed two dozen criminals while residents and activists claimed human rights abuses. It was just after sunrise Thursday when dozens of officers from Rio de Janeiro state’s civil police stormed Jacarezinho, a favela…