LAGOS OCTOBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Italian parliament has passed a reform – with 553 yeas to 14 nays – that would cut the number of lawmakers by over one third. After Tuesday’s vote the number of senators in the Upper House is to drop from 315 to 200, while that of deputies in the Lower House…
LAGOS OCTOBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An $875 million (716.7 million pounds) Nigerian government lawsuit against U.S. bank JPMorgan is clear to move forward after a London-based appeals court on Tuesday rejected the bank’s bid to have the case dismissed. The bank had asked the court to quash the Nigerian government’s case, arguing that it had no prospect…
LAGOS JUNE 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Television Authority has been removed from the largest digital satellite television service platform in Europe, Sky Limited. A visit to Sky’s website showed that NTA had been barred indefinitely from airing on Channel 794. A message on Sky’s website read in part, “794: NTA International; currently temporarily removed from EPG…
LAGOS APRIL 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A man identified as Leopoldo Scalici, has been arrested after he killed a Nigerian sex worker over poor performance in Italy. In his confessional statement, the suspect said he smashed the victims head with a bench vise, because he was angry that she didn’t perform well during their sex romp. The deceased’s…
LAGOS APRIL 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A newly-born baby from a family of Nigerian migrants in Italy has died following a botched home circumcision, the second such incident in little over a week, news reports said on Wednesday. According to the ANSA news agency, the baby, only a few weeks old, was found dead at home in Genoa,…
LAGOS MARCH 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian woman, 25 years-old Princess Okoye excreted fifteen pellets of cocaine at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi on Sunday, The lady who was travelling to Italy was reported to have equally hid 77 pellets of suspected narcotics in packets that had been hidden in two bottles of milk. “Upon…
LAGOS OCTOBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-For all that he’s embroiled in — accused of rape nine years ago — the soccer superstar wanted some space so he could celebrate his goal on Saturday all by himself in front of a TV camera. He leaped into the air with an emphatic double fist pump, as he’s often marked…
LAGOS AUGUST 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As British Prime Minister Theresa May visits Nigeria and two other African countries this week, the country reported it had returned £70 million recovered from a Nigerian, who was convicted of fraud by an Italian court. The British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Mr Paul Arkwright, said in Abuja: “There was an Italian…