LAGOS DECEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Omoyele Sowore has been nominated to receive the Prisoner of Conscience honour from the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission of the United States House of Representatives. The bipartisan commission is charged with promoting, defending and advocating for international human rights. U.S lawmaker, Josh Gottheimer, sponsored Sowore’s nomination for the prestigious recognition….
LAGOS DECEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Donald Trump became the third sitting president in U.S. history to be impeached, as the House of Representatives approved on Wednesday the two articles of impeachment against him: that he abused the power of his office by pressuring Ukraine to interfere in the 2020 election on his behalf, and that he obstructed…
LAGOS DECEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Feverish demonstrations took place from coast to coast Tuesday night as thousands raised a rallying cry to impeach Donald Trump on the eve of the House’s historic vote to oust the president. On Wednesday the House of Representatives will start to vote on two articles of impeachment. The vote will take place…
LAGOS DECEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As the crisis in Anglophone Cameroon persists, the United States (US), has asked President Paul Biya of Cameroon to “immediately and unconditionally” pull out the military from Southern Cameroun territory. The 72-hour ultimatum followed US congress approval in a resolution of an Act, authorising President Donald Trump and US Department of Defence…
LAGOS DECEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Air Peace said on Thursday that none of its aircraft was siezed in Atlanta, in the United States. The airline said it had no links with any airplane seized in the U.S. According to Air Peace Corporate Commumications /Media Executive, Stanley Olisa, the company does not currently have any aircraft in the…
LAGOS DECEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The United States has extradited 64-year-old Babatunde Martins, a Nigerian living in Ghana, to Memphis to stand trial for an indictment charging him with cybercrimes and identity theft. According to the U.S Department of Justice, a federal grand jury in the U.S District Court for the Western District of Tennessee indicted Martins…
LAGOS DECEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Worldwide condemnation has trailed Nigeria’s government the violent re-arrest of journalist and activist, Omoyele Sowore, on Friday (Dec. 6). It came less than 24 hours after Sowore and his co-accused, Olawale Bakare, were freed after 125 days in detention during which two courts had granted them bail. Government agents stormed the Federal…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 20TH – The United States on Tuesday urged Cameroon to devolve power in its troubled anglophone region, saying the government’s military response was only strengthening separatists. The warning came weeks after the United States ended certain preferential trade benefits for Cameroon, citing human rights violations including arbitrary killings. Tibor Nagy, the top US…