LAGOS APRIL 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A U.S. judge on Monday halted the Trump administration’s policy of sending some asylum seekers back across the southern border to wait out their cases in Mexico, stopping a program the government planned to use to stem a recent flood of migrants. The ruling is slated to take effect on Friday, according…
LAGOS JABUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS) – Mexican authorities said Thursday they had found 21 bodies on the US-Mexican border after a drug-gang shootout in a town near where President Donald Trump was due to visit later in the day. The bodies — some of them badly burned — were found Wednesday in the border town of…
LAGOS DECEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-American congressman, Christopher Smith, who is also the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, has urged President Donald Trump to use his sanctioning authority to hold accountable any (Nigerian) official who subverts the 2019 electoral process or foment violence against citizens. He issued a statement concerning the 2019 general…
LAGOS DECEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGRS)-Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has travelled with a delegation of other lawmakers to the United States of America to attend President Donald Trump’s ‘Strategy for Africa’ to be unveiled on Thursday, December 13, 2018. In a statement signed by the Senate President’s spokesperson, Yusuph Olaniyonu, the US president’s new strategy for Africa…
LAGOS DECEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)- There was no mistaking the odd man out. The Washington funeral service for former President George H.W. Bush served as a rare reunion of the remaining members of the presidents club, but the front-row banter among Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter and their spouses came to an end when…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Democrats on the U.S. House intelligence panel will investigate U.S. President Donald Trump’s response to the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi as part of a “deep dive” next year into U.S.-Saudi Arabia ties, the committee’s incoming head said in a report published on Friday. The committee will investigate the U.S. intelligence assessment…
LAGOS NOVEMVER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A judge in Washington has ordered the White House to return a CNN reporter Jim Acosta’s press pass after it was revoked by the US Secret Service. The judge’s order held that the pass must be reinstated as a CNN lawsuit against Donald Trump continues. The judge ruled that the White House…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-CNN sued Donald Trump’s administration on Tuesday, alleging the White House violated journalist Jim Acosta’s rights under the constitution by revoking his press credentials following a heated exchange with the US president. “The wrongful revocation of these credentials violates CNN and Acosta’s First Amendment rights of freedom of the press, and their…