LAGOS NOVEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Approximately 731 banks and 140 government sites were torched in recent unrest in Iran, Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli said in remarks published by the official IRNA news agency on Wednesday. More than 50 bases used by security forces were attacked and approximately 70 gas stations were also burned, he said, without…
LAGOS OCTOBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-WHAT kind of President is Muhammadu Buhari? In moments of national crisis, he abandons his duty post in preference for foreign trips of dubious value. Showing scant interest in domestic affairs, the President has embarked on another international trip, this time, to Sochi, Russia, for a three-day summit on gas and trade….
LAGOS JULY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Hamza bin Laden, the son of Osama bin Laden and heir to al Qaeda leadership, is dead, according to media reports. Officials confirmed to The New York Times that the younger bin Laden was killed in the past two years, but that it took time to confirm his death. The United States…
LAGOS JULY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Some Nigerians living in London on Friday, July 26, stormed the Iranian embassy to protest the activities of the members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria across the Federal Capital Territory. The Nigerians under the aegis of Concerned Nigerians in the United Kingdom during the protest warned the Iranian embassy to stop…
LAGOS JULY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Iran arrested 17 suspects and sentenced some to death after dismantling a CIA spy ring, an official said Monday, as tensions soar between the Islamic republic and arch-enemy the United States. Security agencies “successfully dismantled a (CIA) spy network,” the head of counter-intelligence at the Iranian intelligence ministry, whose identity was not…
LAGOS APRIL 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Wednesday condemned the silence of US President Donald Trump’s administration on Saudi Arabia’s mass execution of 37 people convicted of terrorism. “After a wink at the dismembering of a journalist, not a whisper from the Trump administration when Saudi Arabia beheads 37 men in one…