LAGOS NOVEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Financial Intelligence Conference to Feature Presentation by Leading Whistleblower Lawyer on How Non-US. Citizens Have Obtained Millions of Dollars in Whistleblower Rewards by Using American Laws Stephen M. Kohn, partner at Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto and the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Whistleblower Center, will…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Ghanaian Minister of Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has appealed to the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to intervene in the border closure by Nigeria. He said the decision is hurting traders in the sub-region and it is clearly against the principles of ECOWAS. Nkrumah who made this call during a media…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Forty-one migrants were found alive in a refrigerated truck in northern Greece on Monday, said police, who arrested the driver. The migrants, of apparent Afghan origin, were mostly in good condition but seven received first aid in hospital, the police said. “The truck contained men and boys. Identifying their nationality will require…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 900 city jailbirds could be celebrating Christmas early courtesy of Gov. Andrew Cuomo and a plan to quietly free them before the state’s bail-reform law goes into effect next year, The Post has learned. And if that weren’t enough of a gift, Mayor Bill de Blasio is promising to…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Burkinabe Parliament member, who was also one of the last authorities in a region ravaged by militants, was killed in a suicide bomb attack in the northern Djibo region on Sunday, security and government officials said. The lawmaker, Oumarou Dicko, who had gone to officiate the launch of a Red Cross…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said on Sunday the death toll from protests last month had risen to 86 and urged citizens to resist forces threatening to impede the country’s progress. “We have to stop those forces who are trying pull us two steps back while we are going one step forward,”…
By Patricia Scotland, Commonwealth Secretary-General LAGOS NOVEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Access to justice for everyone in all communities is an important right and requirement for building fair and peaceful societies – yet this objective has been achieved in few if any nations, and the consequences are damaging for social, economic and political progress and stability. Studies indicate…
LAGOS OCTOBER 1ST NOVEMBER (NEWSRANGERS)-A Gambian former beauty queen on Thursday accused former President Yahya Jammeh of raping her to punish her for rejecting his marriage proposal, in evidence to the country’s truth and reconciliation commission. “What he wanted to do was to teach me a lesson, what he wanted to do is manifest his…