LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the remand of activist and African Action Congress (AAC) presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore, at the Kuje Correctional Centre. He will remain in custody until Wednesday when proceedings will resume on a two-count cybercrime charge the Department of State Services (DSS) filed against him for…
LAGOS AUGUST 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The State Department has revoked more than 6,000 international student visas because of violations of US law and overstays, the department told the BBC. The agency said the “vast majority” of the violations were assault, driving under the influence (DUI), burglary and “support for terrorism”. The move comes as the Trump administration…
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student visas of five individuals currently attending or recently graduated from Harvard University have been revoked, according to Harvard.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 APRIL 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The U.S. State Department revoked the visas of members of a Mexican band after they projected the face of a drug cartel boss onto a large screen during a performance in the western state of Jalisco over the weekend. U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau, who was U.S. ambassador to Mexico…
LAGOS MARCH 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration will revoke the temporary legal status of 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans in the United States, according to a Federal Register notice on Friday, the latest expansion of his crackdown on immigration. The move, effective April 24, cuts short a two-year “parole” granted to the migrants…
LAGOS DECEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-On Wednesday, November 20, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested notorious fraudster Oluyomi Omobolanle Bombata, also known as Bobo Chicago, for scamming companies and individuals of $2.8 million in Illinois. Authorities have also revoked the license of the African Shrine, owned by Wale Ogundana in Las Vegas, after the FBI traced…
LAGOS JUNE 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-In a move aimed at safeguarding the integrity of Nigeria’s financial system, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has taken the decisive step of revoking the banking license of Heritage Bank PLC. The action, effective immediately, comes in response to the bank’s persistent failure to improve its financial performance, posing a threat…
LAGOS JANUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-One Sydney Mmeka, a former Regional Manager of Access Bank Plc, who is being prosecuted by the Lagos Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, is planning on fleeing the country amid an alleged N50 million fraud charged against him. This was disclosed during the sitting of the Special Offences…
