LAGOS OCTOBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State last seen alive in a video in April, was targeted in a strike by U.S. Special Operations Forces in Syria on Saturday, according to three U.S. officials. The ISIS leader is believed to be dead, those officials told ABC News. One official told…
LAGOS OCTOBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The White House has issued a formal objection to House Democrats’ impeachment probe into President Trump without an official vote. In a blistering letter to House Democrats, the White House’s lawyer said President Trump “cannot participate in your partisan and unconstitutional inquiry under these circumstances.” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) announced…
LAGOS OCTOBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A homeless man confessed to fatally bludgeoning four sleeping vagrants and critically injuring a fifth during a bloody rampage through Chinatown, a prosecutor said in court on Sunday. Randy Santos, 24, came clean when cops confronted him with evidence of the grisly attacks, Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Alfred Peterson said. “While he…
LAGOS OCTOBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Newly released data from the U.S. Census Bureau spotlights African languages among the top ten fastest growing languages spoken at home in the U.S. The list featured three groups of African languages: Swahili and other Central/Eastern/Southern African languages; Yoruba, Twi, Igbo, and other Western African languages; and Amharic/Somali. Analysts credit the development…
LAGOS OCTOBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Four homeless men were found beaten to death in Manhattan early Saturday morning in what police are calling a random attack. A fifth man is in critical condition. All five victims were men who suffered trauma to the head, police said. They appeared to have been sleeping when the attack happened just…
LAGOS OCTOBER 2ND (NEWRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday disclosed that Nigeria and the United States of America would sign a memorandum to repatriate US$300m looted by former Head of State, Late Gen. Sani Abacha. Nigeria had received over $2 billion out of the $5 billion believed to have been looted during the Abacha administration The…
LAGOS SEPEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Nine Chinese students who were returning to the U.S. as undergraduate students at Arizona State University were detained at Los Angeles International Airport, university officials said. The students were detained by Customs and Border Protection officials “over the last week,” the university said in a statement Friday. The students were “denied admission…
LAGOS AUGUST 29TH (NEWSRANGRS)-The story of an incoming Harvard freshman who was denied entry into the United States after his laptop and cellphone were searched at the airport last week has immigration and free speech advocates sounding the alarm over the Trump administration’s increasingly restrictive immigration policies and how they are enforced. According to the…