LAGOS JANUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Authorities in the United States have auctioned a luxury wristwatch and a necklace seized from Abidemi Rufai, a former Ogun State official who served a jail term in the United States of America. The United States District Court for Western Tacoma in Washington jailed Abidemi Rufai on 26 September 2022 for wire fraud and…
LAGOS JANUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Two high-profile Nigerian clerics took part in events surrounding the inauguration of US President Donald Trump on Monday. The visits of Pastors William Kumuyi and Nathaniel Bassey served to underscore the ties between Christian evangelicalism and the incoming US administration. Trump could leverage his popularity among some religious Christians on the African…
LAGOS JANUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-On Monday, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order reinstating the death penalty for severe crimes. According to reports, Trump signed nearly 200 executive actions, memoranda, and proclamations on his first day in office, undoing many policies of his predecessor, Joe Biden. The executive order, titled “Restoring the Death Penalty and Protecting…
LAGOS JANUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 66 people have died and more than 50 were injured following a horrific fire at a popular ski resort, the Associated Press reported. The blaze erupted on Tuesday morning around 3:30 a.m. local time at Turkey’s Kartalkaya ski resort, a 12-story hotel situated in the Köroğlu Mountains within the…
LAGOS JANUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Leader of UK’s Conservative Party, Kemi Badenoch, has renewed her onslaught against Nigeria. The Nigerian-born politician dominated the headlines towards the end of last year over controversial remarks about her birth country. While delivering her first speech of the year at an event organised by Onward, a British think tank producing research…
LAGOS JANUARY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-US immigration authorities will carry out mass arrests of undocumented immigrants across the country on Tuesday, a top border official in the incoming administration of Donald Trump has said. The move would be among the first by Republican Trump, who returns to the White House on Monday, to uphold a campaign pledge…
LAGOS JANUARY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two judges were killed in a shooting attack on Saturday outside the Supreme Court building in Tehran, state media reported. “Three judges of the Supreme Court were targeted. Two of them were martyred and one was injured,” the judiciary’s Mizan Online website reported, adding that the “assailant killed himself.” Alarabiya News For…
LAGOS JANUARY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Biden on Friday commuted the sentences of nearly 2,500 federal inmates convicted of crack cocaine offenses — as roughly the same number of marijuana prisoners await word on whether he will honor his campaign pledge to free them. The White House didn’t say whether the latest clemency recipients would be released immediately or…