LAGOS SEPTEMBER- (NEWSRANGERS) – Ifeanyi Agwuegbo, one of the about 80 American residents of Nigerian origin who were arrested last month by the United States authorities, has been granted bail. Mr Agwuegbo, named as one of the main suspects in a vast business email fraud busted by the F.B.I., appeared in a Texas court on…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER- (NEWSRANGERS) – A military court in Burkina Faso on Monday convicted and jailed two generals on charges of masterminding a coup in the fragile Sahel state in 2015. General Gilbert Diendere was convicted on charges of murder and harming state security and handed a 20-year prison term, while General Djibrill Bassole, accused of…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER (NEWSRANGERS)– Cameroon’s restive anglophone regions were in shutdown on Monday as schools and shops closed in protest at the sentencing of charismatic separatist leader Julius Sisiku Ayuk Tabe to life in prison. Troops were seen patrolling the streets in flashpoint areas and in Bamenda, the capital of the anglophone Northwest Region, residents reported…
LAGOS SEPEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)- Indian police have discovered a large-scale BTC scam worth $67.6 mln, its facilitator beaten to death for cheating his partners Police in the Indian Uttarakhand state have found out about a big Bitcoin scam after its orchestrator, Abdul Shakoor, was killed by his former crime partners for cheating them. Massive Bitcoin…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)- The pontiff arrived late for his weekly address in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday explaining that he had been stuck in an elevator in the Vatican for 25 minutes and had to be freed by firefighters. “I have to beg your pardon,” the smiling pontiff said as he started the address…
LAGOS SEPEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Nine Chinese students who were returning to the U.S. as undergraduate students at Arizona State University were detained at Los Angeles International Airport, university officials said. The students were detained by Customs and Border Protection officials “over the last week,” the university said in a statement Friday. The students were “denied admission…
LAGOS AUGUST 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-British judge has said he will grant a firm called Process and Industrial Developments Ltd (P&ID) the right to attempt to seize some $9 billion in assets from the Nigerian government over an aborted gas project. The company was awarded $6.6 billion in an arbitration decision over the failed 2010 project to…
LAGOS AUGUST 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Julius Maada Bio, the president of Sierra Leone, has terminated the appointment of his Chief of Protocol (SCOP), Fatmata Kargbo, after she went to the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) owned by Nigerian clergyman, TB Joshua, to testify of how God has favoured her. Kargbo was featured on Emmanuel TV owned…