LAGOS SEPTEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-US special representative on Ukraine Kurt Volker resigned Friday after Congress ordered him to answer questions in an impeachment investigation on President Donald Trump, a source said. A person familiar with the matter who requested anonymity confirmed Volker’s resignation, which was first reported by the student newspaper at Arizona State University, where…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-It did not escape Stewart Resnick’s attention that, after some unusual winter weather in 2015, his pistachio crop took a 70% hit. He couldn’t miss it when, for several years, his heat-blasted oranges came in smaller and less prodigiously than in the past. California’s persistent drought could not be ignored, either, by…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A British judge on Thursday gave Nigeria permission to seek to overturn a ruling that would have allowed a private firm to try to seize more than $9 billion in assets from the West African country. Process & Industrial Developments, a firm set up to carry out a gas project with Nigeria,…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)- The Monrovia suburb of Paynesville was a town in mourning Friday, as residents sought to come to terms with the loss of 27 pupils in a huge fire at a Liberian Koranic school. “How do you expect me to feel in this condition?” said Isatu Sow, mother of one of the…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A fire at an Islamic school in Liberia has killed at least 27 children, police said on Wednesday. “The kids were learning the Koran when the fire broke out,” police spokesman Moses Carter said. He added the blaze was caused by an electrical issue and that further investigations were ongoing. Carter had…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Obinwanne Okeke, the Nigerian entrepreneur arrested by operatives of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on the last day of his visit to the United States in August, pleaded not guilty to the two count charge of wire and computer fraud at the commencement of his trial on Monday September 16. The…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Oil prices dropped sharply on Tuesday after a top Saudi Arabian source told Reuters production could be fully back on line within weeks, quicker than initially thought following weekend attacks that cut halved the kingdom’s output. Saturday’s attacks raised the specter of a major supply shock in a market that in recent…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A video making rounds online captured moment South Africans engaged in a peaceful demonstration to beg Nigerians and citizens of other African countries for forgiveness over the xenophobic attacks. SEE VIDEO View this post on Instagram South Africans engage in peaceful demonstration to ask #Nigeria and other African countries for forgiveness over…