LAGOS DECEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The mysterious detention of Uganda’s opposition leader Kizza Besigye while on a visit to Kenya nearly two weeks ago has sparked widespread condemnation and fears of a clandestine exchange of intelligence between the two neighbours. Besigye’s allies and wife have come out to reveal harrowing details of how the opposition chief was…
LAGOS DECEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The pardon comes weeks before President Biden leaves office and transfers power to President-elect Donald J. Trump, who spent years attacking Hunter Biden over his legal and personal issues. In a statement issued by the White House, Mr. Biden said he had decided to issue the executive grant of clemency for his…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A pensioner has revealed how a “very convincing” telephone scam cost him £4,000 as he issued a warning to others. Harold Richardson, 75, from Kent, was targeted last July when a fraudster called him up and pretended to be from Microsoft. The scammer falsely told Harold that his computer had been infected…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Six so-called “narco subs” stuffed with cocaine were captured in a Colombian-led international anti-drug operation, authorities in the Latin American nation said Wednesday, as part of a huge global bust. The mission, involving 62 countries, seized more than 1,400 metric tons of drugs – mostly marijuana – between October 1 and November…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Liberian warlord, Prince Johnson, a key player in the 1989-2003 back-to-back civil wars, died Thursday aged 72. Officials from his party and the Senate told AFP. Johnson, who was seen sipping beer in a video as fighters loyal to him tortured then president Samuel Doe to death in 1990, was an…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Singapore hanged a 35-year-old Singaporean-Iranian man for drug trafficking on Friday, its fourth in less than a month, despite appeals from Tehran to “reconsider” his execution. The United Nations and rights groups say capital punishment has no proven deterrent effect and have called for it to be abolished, but Singaporean officials insist…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Bola Tinubu will begin a two-day trip to France on Thursday, the first state visit by a Nigerian leader in more than two decades, as Paris seeks to boost ties with anglophone Africa. Military coups and changing attitudes have lessened France’s influence on the African continent, where several nations have turned…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An Arizona man was arrested Monday after allegedly threatening to kill President-elect Donald Trump in a series of Facebook videos, including one in which he appears to hold up an AR-15-style rifle, according to court documents. Manuel Tamayo-Torres faces a felony charge of threatening the president-elect after he made several threats against…