LAGOS DECEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A United Kingdom court on Thursday dismissed the application by some leaders of Ejamah Ebubu community in Ogoniland to register the judgment of a Nigerian Federal High Court in the country for enforcement. Claimants had applied to register the judgement to enforce a N183 billion judgment sum, which they claimed was the…
LAGOS OCTOBER 2TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari will be travelling to London, the United Kingdom, on a private visit after attending the Economic Forum of the Future Investment Initiative (FII) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Femi Adesina, the special adviser to the president on media and publicity, made this known in a statement released on Monday, October…
LAGOS OCTOBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The United Kingdom receives not less than 90 billion pound shady funds from across the world every year, most of them stolen by public officials from Third World countries, including but not limited to Nigeria, foreign experts said in Port Harcourt, Rivers State on Monday. The experts said 87,000 illicit assets in…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-There was anxiety among fans of popular singer, Majekodunmi Fasheke, aka Majek Fashek, when it was reported on some online media that the artiste fondly known as the ‘Rainmaker’ had passed on in London. However, his manager and friend, Umenka Uzoma, told SATURDAY BEATS that the veteran singer was getting better. In…
LAGOS AUGUST 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-British judge has said he will grant a firm called Process and Industrial Developments Ltd (P&ID) the right to attempt to seize some $9 billion in assets from the Nigerian government over an aborted gas project. The company was awarded $6.6 billion in an arbitration decision over the failed 2010 project to…
LAGOS AUGUST 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Maria Adesanya, a Nigerian immigrant and mother of a five-year-old child faces deportation from the UK after she was found guilty of bribing a male NHS nurse to pose as her baby daughter’s father so that her child could get a British passport. Adesanya, 31, paid £3,000 to UK citizen and Nigerian-born…
LAGOS JULY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Zimbabwean Government, on Wednesday, summoned the British envoy over an assault on Foreign Minister, Sibusiso Busi Moyo, and his delegation in London, state-run media reported. The Herald newspaper added that the government had also called for the attackers, who appeared to be predominantly Zimbabwean. It added that the attackers be prosecuted…
LAGOS JULY 12TH (NEWSANGERS)-Zimbabwe’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Sibusiso Busi Moyo was, on Friday, attacked by protesters at Chatham House in the UK. The country’s Information Permanent Secretary, Ndabaningi Nick Mangwana and his aides were also attacked. A video shared on Twitter by Hopewell Chin’ono, @daddyhope, revealed one of the protesters, pouring…