LAGOS AUGUST 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-After sanctioning Brazilian Supreme Court judge Alexandre de Moraes for abusing his authority by engaging in a targeted and politically motivated witch hunt on Wednesday, American President Donald Trump threatened to sanction corrupt judges in Nigeria and across the globe in a similar manner. Marco Rubio, U.S. Secretary of State, issued…
LAGOS APRIL 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In St Peter’s Square, 250,000 mourners attended the funeral of Pope Francis to pay their final respects. The powerful and the marginalised were brought together to say a final farewell to a man who “touched minds and hearts” and wanted to “build bridges, not walls”, as Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re said of…
LAGOS APRIL 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The student visas of five individuals currently attending or recently graduated from Harvard University have been revoked, according to Harvard. It’s one of more than a dozen higher education institutions that is actively tracking and reporting the number of affiliated people who have been targeted by President Donald Trump’s administration in recent…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Donald Trump will make history this weekend by becoming the first sitting president of the United States of America to attend the Super Bowl. The Kansas City Chiefs take on the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans. The city was devastated by a terror attack on New…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-US President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order withdrawing Washington from a number of United Nations bodies, including its Human Rights Council (UNHRC), and setting up a broader review of US funding for the multilateral organization. The executive order said it withdrew Washington from UNHRC and the main UN relief…
LAGOS JANUARY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-It was a marriage made in heaven — until it wasn’t. President Trump and Elon Musk, two titans of ego, united for the cameras and the “greater good.” But like all fairy tales, this one didn’t last. The honeymoon is now officially over. Barely had Trump announced his artificial intelligence infrastructure project,…
LAGOS JANUARY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The U.S. Air Force began deportation flights of people held in detention by Customs and Border Protection, U.S. officials said on Jan. 24, in a move ordered by President Donald Trump as part of a sweeping promise to crack down on illegal immigration and more tightly police the southern border. One C-17…
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…