LAGOS OCTOBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Presidential spokesman Femi Adesina has faulted reports that the aircraft on which President Muhammadu Buhari recently travelled to the United States developed fault mid-air. Adesina described the reports published on some online platforms as an example of fake news that has become a major vice and threat to information dissemination in the…
LAGOS AUGUST 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A US federal grand jury in Baltimore, Maryland has returned an indictment charging three Maryland men for the federal charges of conspiracy, violation of the Arms Export Control Act and the Export Reform Control Act, related to the export of firearms and ammunition from the United States to Nigeria. Charged in the…
LAGOS AUGUST 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Ugandan government said on Friday it had ordered more than 50 non-governmental organisations to suspend operations, a major escalation of its efforts to tighten control over civil society. The 54 groups affected include the country’s most prominent rights organisation, Chapter Four, as well as charities, religious, environmental and electoral democracy groups….
LAGOS AUGUST 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The U.S. has frozen nearly $9.5 billion in assets belonging to the Afghan central bank and stopped shipments of cash to the nation as it tries to keep a Taliban-led government from accessing the money, an administration official confirmed Tuesday. The official said that any central bank assets that the Afghan government…