LAGOS APRIL 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Canada has rejected the request of a former member of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Olushola Popoola, seeking asylum in the North American country. Popoola’s application was rejected by the Immigration Division of the Immigration and Refugee Board in Canada because of him being a member of the defunct unit of the Nigeria…
LAGOS APRIL 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A U.K. High Court of Justice, Strand, London, (Queen’s Bench Division) Tuesday, April 13, granted a perpetual injunction restraining Maureen Badejo from publishing further defamatory words against or concerning Dr. Daniel Olukoya, his family and the Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries (MFM), Collins Edomaruse has said in a statement. According to…
LAGOS APRIL 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Kelyn Spadoni allegedly transferred the funds received from Charles Schwab & Co. to another account immediately A Louisiana woman is being accused of mistakenly receiving funds and not returning them. Kelyn Spadoni, 33, of Harvey, Louisiana, allegedly refused to return more than $1.2 million she mistakenly received from Charles Schwab & Co….
LAGOS APRIL 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Burkina Faso court charged former President Blaise Compaore in absentia on Tuesday in connection with the 1987 murder of then-President Thomas Sankara, one of the most infamous killings in Africa’s post-independence history. Sankara, a charismatic Marxist revolutionary often called “Africa’s Che Guevara”, was assassinated during a coup led by his former…
LAGOS APRIL 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Seven Catholic clergy, including two French citizens, have been kidnapped in Haiti, said the spokesman of the Bishop’s Conference for the island nation, which has been rocked by unrest. Five priests and two nuns were abducted in the morning in Croix-des-Bouquets, a commune northeast of the capital Port-au-Prince, while they were “on their…
LAGOS APRIL 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria and China mark their golden jubilee of official relations in 2021, having established diplomatic ties in 1971. And as trade and investment have grown, so has lending, leading to increased focus on the balance of the bilateral relationship. Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari has at times had to deny that his country…
LAGOS APRIL 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At least 82 people were killed in one day in a crackdown by Myanmar security forces on pro-democracy protesters, according to reports Saturday from independent local media and an organization that keeps track of casualties since the February coup. Friday’s death toll in Bago was the biggest one-day total for a single…
LAGOS APRIL 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets as angry protests erupted in a Minneapolis suburb after a 20-year-old Black man was shot dead during a traffic stop. The unrest in Brooklyn Center came hours before the trial of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer charged with murdering George Floyd, was set…