LAGOS SEPTEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Three Nigerians who were recently deported from the United States and dumped in Ghana have approached a court in Washington DC to challenge their deportation. The unnamed Nigerians and two fellow deportees from The Gambia also complained to the court about their alleged inhuman treatment during the 16hours flight from the US…
LAGOS AUGUST 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-US President Donald Trump has said homeless people must “move out” of Washington DC as he vowed to tackle crime in the city, but the mayor pushed back against the White House likening the American capital to Baghdad in Iraq. The Republican president has also trailed a news conference for Monday about…
LAGOS AUGUST 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jay Clayton, and Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), Christopher G. Raia, announced the unsealing of an Indictment charging four Ghanaian nationals, ISAAC ODURO BOATENG, a/k/a “Kofi Boat,” INUSAH AHMED, a/k/a…
LAGOS AUGUST 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Donald Trump has ordered US army officials to begin using military force against drug cartels. The extraordinary move has threatened a diplomatic row with Claudia Sheinbaum, the Mexican president, insisting US forces will not enter the country. The directive marks a significant escalation in the president’s aggressive campaign against the Latin American…
LAGOS JULY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A fire at a care home facility in the US state of Massachusetts killed 9 residents and left some 30 others injured, local authorities said on Monday. The incident took place on Sunday at 9:50 p.m local time (02:50 UTC/GMT) at the Gabriel House facility in the community of Fall River, some…
LAGOS JULY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A flight travelling from Cancun, Mexico, to London was forced to divert and land in Maine this week after two passengers on board began fighting. The emergency landing around 21:30 EST (01:30GMT) on Tuesday resulted in all 267 passengers on board being forced to spend the night in Bangor, Maine. By the…
LAGOS JUNE 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Six people were injured Sunday when a skydiving plane carrying 20 passengers and crew crashed in Tennessee. The twin-engine plane went down soon after taking off from Tullahoma Regional Airport at 12:30 p.m., officials said in a Sunday evening briefing. It landed in a grassy area near the airport, next to the…
LAGOS MAY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Supreme Court on May 16 continued to block the Trump administration from using a 1798 wartime law to deport a group of Venezuelan migrants who said they had not been given a real chance to contest their removal. In an unsigned opinion with two noted dissents, the court said the migrants…