LAGOS JUNE 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Eight deportees and over a dozen Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers are stranded in a shipping container in east Africa after a judge blocked their deportation flight. Neither the officers or immigrants are able to leave the container, located in a U.S. naval base in the scorching-hot nation of Djibouti,…
By David Adenekan LAGOS AUGUST 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-To say the trial and travail of Chief Sunday Adeyemo (aka Igboho Oosa) in Republic of Benin is the best unifying force that has happened to the Yoruba nation in this generation, is to say the least. Moreover, if not for the trial and travail of their kinsman, Chief…
LAGOS APRIL 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Raul Castro said Friday he is resigning as head of Cuba’s Communist Party, ending an era of leadership that began with his brother Fidel and the country’s 1959 revolution. The 89-year-old Castro made the announcement in a speech at the opening of the eighth Congress of the ruling party, the only one…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A judge in South Africa issued an arrest warrant Tuesday for former president Jacob Zuma for failing to appear in court on a corruption case that he has sought to avoid for months — now by asserting that he is ill. The National Prosecuting Authority requested the warrant, the South African Broadcasting…
LAGOS DECEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The United States has placed Nigeria and six other countries on a special list of countries to avoid; due to their repeated violation of religious freedom. Other countries listed in the SWL include Comoros, Russia, Uzbekistan, Cuba, Nicaragua, and Sudan. This disclosure was revealed by the US Secretary of State, Michael Pompeo, in…
LAGOS DECEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The mill is on overdrive after suggestions that former President Jacob Zuma was whisked away “incognito” style to Cuba for an emergency medical procedure after sources claimed he was poisoned. This would be the second time Jacob Zuma would have been poisoned after the first attempt was allegedly orchestrated by his wife Nompumelelo Ntuli-Zuma,…