LAGOS APRIL 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-She was found guilty on charges of bribery, coercion and abuse of power, and ordered to pay a fine of 18 billion won (US$17 million). “The amount of bribery the accused received or demanded in collaboration with Choi amounts to more than 23 billion won,” Judge Kim Se-Yoon said, referring to Park’s…
LAGOS APRIL 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Facebook has had a contentious relationship with Brazilian authorities, and its WhatsApp messenger has suffered multiple service bans for failing to cooperate. Two years ago, a court froze around $6 million of the company’s cash after it didn’t hand over data for a criminal investigation over drug smuggling. It seems the social…
LAGOS APRIL 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Cameroon security forces have freed 18 hostages, including 12 European tourists, who had been seized by separatists fighting for the independence of English-speaking regions, the government said Wednesday. Seven Swiss and five Italian hostages were freed Monday in Manyu in the southwest after heavy exchanges of gunfire, said spokesman Issa Tchiroma Bakary….
LAGOS APRIL 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Mukhtar Gusengadzhiev, 53, also known as “Snake Man”, was convicted of abusing the six underage girls including a relative and the 9-year-old daughter of a former girlfriend. .The Russian circus actor must also undergo compulsory “treatment” for paedophilia, according to reports. .During a search of his flat, police found several videos featuring…
LAGOS APRIL 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Los Angeles firefighters have found 13-year-old Jesse Hernandez alive in the sewer system near Griffith Park on Easter Sunday. Hernandez fell into the sewer system Sunday afternoon after jumping on wooden planks in an abandoned maintenance building. A frantic, overnight search for Jesse Hernandez — the 13-year-old boy who plunged into a…
LAGOS MARCH 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The chances of President Donald Trump facing an impeachment trial after a month of very poor press coverage have increased and reached their highest point in all of 2018, according to oddsmakers. Political and financial futures site PredictIt showed that the cost of one “Yes” share, which predicted Trump would face impeachment…
LAGOS APRIL 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Winnie Mandela, the former wife of South African anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela, died on Monday at the age of 81, triggering an outpouring of tributes to one of the country’s defining and most divisive figures. She died in a Johannesburg hospital after a long illness, family spokesman Victor Dlamini said in a…
LAGOS MARCH 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Russia on Friday expelled diplomats from 23 countries in a wave of retaliatory measures against the West in a spy row, the biggest wave of tit-for-tat expulsions in recent memory. The Russian foreign ministry said in a statement that it had summoned the heads of missions from 23 countries earlier to tell…
