LAGOS AUGUST 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former senior Saudi intelligence official said in a US lawsuit Thursday that the country’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman tried to have him assassinated in 2018, just weeks after dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered in Turkey. Saad Aljabri said Prince Mohammed sent a “hit squad” to Canada, where he lives…
LAGOS JULY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Nigerian international, Musa Nosa Kadiri, has passed away at the age of 53 in New York. A source said Kadiri, ex- Flying Eagles star, went into a coma after falling from his apartment which caused bleeding in the brain. SaharaReporters gathered that he died on Friday. A statement says his funeral…
LAGOS JULY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Mountain of Fire And Miracles Ministries (MFM) has urged an Online Publisher to henceforth stop the misguided and vicious attack on MFM General Overseer, Dr D.K. Olukoya. A statement signed by Mr Collins Edomaruse, a Media Aide to Dr D.K. Olukoya disclosed that the Church attention was drawn to an on-line story…
LAGOS JULY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Saudi Arabia’s 84-year-old ruler, King Salman bin Abdulaziz, has been admitted to hospital in the capital Riyadh, suffering from inflammation of the gall bladder, state news agency SPA said on Monday. The king, who has ruled the world’s largest oil exporter and close U.S. ally since 2015, was undergoing medical checks, the…
LAGOS JULY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Trump administration abruptly reversed course Tuesday, telling a federal judge in Boston that it was dropping a new policy that would have required international students to leave the U.S. if their colleges or universities were offering only online classes. The announcement was made without explanation in a hearing with U.S. District…
LAGOS JULY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The US government on Tuesday morning carried out the first federal execution in nearly two decades — despite objections from family members of the killer’s victims. Daniel Lewis Lee, who was convicted of killing a family of three, died by lethal injection at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, in the…
Gal Pissetzky, counsel for alleged international fraudster, Ramon Abbas aka Hushpuppi, has said his client was illegally taken to the United States. Pissetzky of Pissetzky & Berliner said the Federal Bureau of Investigation kidnapped his client from Dubai, the United Arab Emirates. The Chicago-based lawyer argued that the Dubai Police should have extradited Abbas to…
LAGOS JULY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Donald Trump has formally moved to withdraw the US from the World Health Organization (WHO). The president had made his intentions clear in late May, accusing the WHO of being under China’s control in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Despite calls from the EU and others, he said he would…
