LAGOS JUNE29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian cult has been accused of promoting a life of prostitution and drugs in Italy’s dark and narrow alleys; from the north in Turin to the south in Palermo. The Washington Post writes that “Italian investigators say the Nigerian syndicate meets the definition of a mafia, rather than a criminal gang, because…
LAGOS JUNE 28TH (NEWRANGERS)-A Brazilian air force officer travelling with President Jair Bolsonaro’s G20 team has been arrested after being caught with 39 kilograms of cocaine. The officer was detained in Seville, Spain, when the back-up plane travelling to Osaka made a stop-over, a statement released by the Brazilian defence ministry said. It said: “The…
LAGOS JUNE 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ethiopian security forces have killed the man accused of orchestrating a failed coup d’etat in the northern Amhara region over the weekend. General Asamnew Tsige, who allegedly led the coup attempt, was shot on Monday near the Amhara state capital Bahir Dar, the prime minister’s press secretary, Negussu Tilahun, told Reuters news…
LAGOS JUNE 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government has issued a warning to Ghana and Togo to stop attacking Nigerians in their countries. The Chairman of the Nigerian Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), Abike Dabiri-Erewa disclosed this on Sunday, June 23, 2019, in Abuja while addressing journalists after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari. Dabiri-Erewa said the warning became…
LAGOS JUNE 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-You’d assume that being worth $103 billion (£80.8 billion) would mean that all of the niggling professional regrets that you otherwise carry around with you would be sandblasted away. Apparently not, though. Bill Gates is still fairly upset about his “greatest mistake ever”, though admittedly his ‘greatest mistake ever’ is probably of…
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A team of lawyers conducted 60 interviews with migrant children being held in an El Paso, Texas, detention camp and found conditions to be dismal. Fifteen of those in the holding center had the flu and 10 more are quarantined with illness, according to the lawyers, who first gave the data to…
LAGOS JUNE 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Federal authorities seized 15,500 kilograms of cocaine from a south Philadelphia port Tuesday. The drugs were removed from seven shipping containers that had arrived in Philadelphia on the cargo ship MSC Gayane. Investigators believe that the drugs were loaded onto the ship in the Bahamas, which was its last port of call…
LAGOS JUNE 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Donald Trump has vowed to begin removing millions of illegal immigrants from the United States starting next week. The pledge came as Mr Trump formally announced his bid for re-election to the White House in 2020. He said US Immigration and Customs Enforcement would “begin the process of removing the millions of…