LAGOS NOVEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Two Nigerians identified as Nosayamen Iyalekhue and Esogie Osawaru have pleaded guilty to defrauding victims using various internet frauds during the COVID-19 pandemic. While Osawaru pleaded guilty on November 12, Iyalekhue, 33, pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud on Thursday. U.S. District Court Chief Judge Rya W. Zobel in Boston,…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A group of Black voters in Detroit announced they are suing President Donald Trump and his campaign, alleging the targeted effort to overturn the election repeats one of the “worst abuses in our nation’s history” by attempting to disenfranchise African American voters. Specifically, the suit takes issue with the campaign’s effort to…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Venezuelans fed up with fuel shortages have begun tapping into the country’s crude oil pipelines to distill their own petrol as the country’s economic demise accelerates. The emerging practice was documented by a Reuters investigation that found desperate Venezuelans breaking holes in pipes and siphoning off crude oil and diverting it to…
LAGOS November 22nd (newsrangers)-Five escaping prisoners died on Saturday when their car hit a tree after more than 60 detainees broke out of a Lebanese detention centre outside the capital Beirut, Lebanon’s Internal Security Forces (ISF) said in a statement. The ISF statement did not say how the 69 prisoners had escaped from the facility,…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-President Donald Trump is considering an executive action to target birthright citizenship in his final weeks in office, according to two sources who spoke with The Hill in a report published on Friday. Birthright citizenship is the policy whereby anyone who is born in the US is immediately granted citizenship, regardless of…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Donald Trump Jr., President Donald Trump’s eldest son, has tested positive for the coronavirus, a spokesman told CNN on Friday. He is one of the frontliners of the no mask campaigners Don tested positive at the start of the week and has been quarantining out at his cabin since the result,” the…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Malawian millionaire preacher Shepherd Bushiri, wanted by South Africa on fraud charges, was Thursday ordered freed by a court in his native country following his arrest on an international warrant. A court in the capital Lilongwe instructed the unconditional release of Bushiri and his wife Mary, a day after they turned themselves…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-While Trump is currently the US president, he is set to be replaced in the White House by Joe Biden, after losing out to the Democratic presidential candidate in the 2020 election. Biden racked up 273 electoral college votes – surpassing the 270 votes he needed to win the presidency and beat…
