LAGOS APRIL 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-After years of sexual assault accusations, Bill Cosby is now a convicted felon. A Montgomery County jury of seven men and five women returned guilty verdicts today on three counts of aggravated indecent assault for Cosby’s January 2004 sexual assault of Andrea Constand. Constand, a former Temple University employee, lost consciousness after…
LAGOS APRIL 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has been summoned by the country’s lawmakers over a spate of killings in the country’s middle belt and other parts of the country. The lawmakers also passed a vote of no confidence in service chiefs and security advisers, calling for their dismissal over their inability to protect Nigerians….
LAGOS APRIL 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian hackers, grouped as Gold Galleon, are menacing shipping firms and bleeding them of thousands of dollars. Network security firm Secureworks has red-flagged the group, whose focus appears solely to be the maritime industry. The group, according to a report by Maritime Executive, an online platform, uses basic email scams and publicly…
LAGOS APRIL 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)Facing a crackdown on their favorite visa to enter the United States, hundreds of wealthy Indians are turning to another program that fast tracks immigrants to a green card. Applications from India for EB-5 visas — which give immigrants a green card if they invest $500,000 and create 10 jobs in the…
LAGOS APRIL 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Who would have known that a company recently wasted its minimal resources on sponsoring an entertainment show is currently battling a war for its survival as a company, but that is the case of Payporte Global System Ltd., sponsors of the 2018 Big Brother Naija Show which sas asked a Federal High…
LAGOS APRIL 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Senator representing Rivers South-East Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Senator Magnus Ngei Abe today declared his intention to contest for the governorship of Rivers State in 2019 on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Abe, who made the declaration while addressing a mammoth crowd at the inauguration of…
LAGOS APRIL 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Senate on Wednesday stopped plenary to visit Sen. Dino Melaye (APC-Kogi) at National Hospital, Abuja, to ascertain his health condition. This followed a point of order by Sen. Sam Anyanwu (PDP-Imo) at plenary. Melaye, who sustained injury during his arrest by security operatives on Tuesday, was earlier taken to Zankli Hospital,…
LAGOS APRIL25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The police have handcuffed Senator Dino Melaye to a hospital bed at the National Hospital, Abuja. Our correspondent gathered on Wednesday that visitors were also not allowed to see the embattled senator, who was forcefully evacuated by the police from a private medical facility, Zankli Hospital and taken to the National Hospital, where…
