LAGOS SEPTEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Iran and the U.S. executed the final steps of a highly complex diplomatic deal that saw five Americans released from an Iranian prison on Monday. The prisoners landed safely on U.S. soil on Tuesday morning after years spent locked away in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison. President Biden released a statement praising the…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Motorists are braced for higher pump prices after the cost of oil climbed above $90 a barrel for the first time this year as Russia and Saudi Arabia extended cuts to supplies. Oil jumped to its highest price since last November, after the two oil-rich nations said they would prolong a plan…
LAGOS AUGUST 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Wagner Group’s fate is hanging in the balance after its top field commander and chief Yevgeny Prigozhin were both presumably killed in a fiery plane crash. The private military company — a once wide-reaching empire that has helped prop up authoritarian regimes in several African countries and played a significant role in…
LAGOS AUGUST 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin’s doomed private plane showed no signs of distress until a sudden drop 30 seconds before the deadly crash in Russia — amid speculation that the rogue warlord’s plane may have been downed by a bomb hidden in a crate of wine. The Embraer Legacy 600 executive jet, with…
LAGOS AUGST 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-It comes hours after Russia confirmed that Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin was on board a private yet which crashed to the ground north of Moscow, killing 10 people. Furious Wagner soldiers in Belarus have sent Vladimir Putin a chilling threat hours after their leader Pregozhin was reportedly killed in a horror…
LAGOS AUGUST 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, who led a brief armed rebellion against the Russian military earlier this year, was presumed dead Wednesday after a plane crash north of Moscow that killed all 10 people on board. Prigozhin was on the plane, according to Russia’s civil aviation agency, which cited the airline. The crash…
LAGOS AUGUST 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Oil prices surged on Monday to the highest level in months after Saudi Arabia extended production cuts for another month, threatening to keep inflation in the U.S. abnormally high. West Texas Intermediate crude, the U.S. benchmark, hovered around $82 a barrel during afternoon trading, the highest level since mid-April, when prices rose…
LAGOS AUGUST 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Republic of Niger’s coup leaders have announced they would end the mandates of ambassadors to four countries as they face international pressure to restore the democratically elected leader they ousted last week. According to France24, the West African defence chiefs were set to wrap up discussions about possible intervention in Niger…