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)-Victor Osimhen has promised to deliver the UEFA Europa League to Galatasaray after he was credited with the Turkish champions’ equaliser at AZ Alkmaar. Various platforms had initially listed the goal as an own goal. “I said I would score a goal (AZ Alkmaar), and I did,” Osimhen said after the…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The leader of the Labour Party and the 2023 Presidential flag bearer, Peter Obi, will be delivering this year’s Convocation lecture at the American University of Nigeria, AUN, Yola, Adamawa state,on, Saturday, November 30, 2024. The keynote speech at the 16th Founder’s Day/20th Convocation of the University, falls in line with Obi’s…
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)-Operatives of the Federal Operations Unit (FOU) Zone A of the Nigeria Customs Service have commenced manhunt for a luxury bus driver and his conductor who fled and left behind five new automatic rifles and several thousands of cartridges in the Oshodi area of Lagos. Customs Officers had trailed the yet-to-be identified…