LAGOS DECEMBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Hunter Biden was indicted on nine tax charges in California on Thursday as a special counsel investigation into the business dealings of President Joe Biden‘s son intensifies against the backdrop of the looming 2024 election. The new charges — three felonies and six misdemeanors — are in addition to federal firearms charges…
LAGOS AUGUST 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Police Command in Ogun on Sunday in Abeokuta said it has apprehended one Akeem Owonikoko, a suspected armed robber, along the Sagamu-Ijebu Ode-Benin Highway. SP Omolola Odutola, the command’s Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), in a statement said Owonikoko was arrested after an operation led by ACP Omosanyi Adeniyi, the Area…
LAGOS AUGUST 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Outgoing Nigerian Bar Association, NBA President Mr. Olumide Akpata has said that any lawyer found complicit in vandalisation of conference booths, theft of phones, and assault on officials will be prosecuted. Akpata stated this on Thursday during the Annual General Meeting of the NBA holding at the Eko Atlantic City, Lagos. Some…
LAGOS OCTOBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Gilbert Chagoury, a Nigerian billionaire of Lebanese descent, has been named in the criminal case of a U.S. congressman Jeff Fortenberry who prosecutors say lied to FBI investigators about illegal contributions to his 2016 re-election campaign from foreign nationals. According to Associated Press, the indictment alleges that Fortenberry, U.S. Representative of Nebraska repeatedly lied to and misled…
LAGOS JULY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 30 members of the House of Representatives are expected to appear before the House Committee on Ethics and Privileges over the allegations bordering on the execution of over N100 billion in the controversial 2018 emergency projects awarded by the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). This followed the directive issued…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been indicted on charges of fraud, bribery and breach of trust, the country’s justice ministry said Thursday, throwing the country’s political scene into even greater disarray and raising the prospect that the country’s longest-serving leader will be forced out of office. The 70-year-old prime minister has…