LAGOS OCTOBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The U.S. on Thursday deployed a plane outfitted with medical supplies to retrieve Tigran Gambaryan, an executive of Binance Holdings Limited, from Nigeria. According to The New York Times, Gambaryan left the country after the Federal Government dropped money laundering charges against him. Vanguard had earlier reported that on Wednesday, the…
LAGOS OCTOBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Vice-President Kashim Shettima has aborted his trip to the 2024 Commonwealth Heads of Government Summit in Samoa. President Bola Tinubu had delegated Nigeria’s number two man to represent the country at the ongoing summit. Traveling across Quang Binh to stunning cinematic locations But in a statement on Thursday night, the presidency announced…
LAGOS OCTOBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Chairman/CEO of Air Peace, Allen Onyema, has been charged ‘in a superseding indictment with obstruction of justice for submitting false documents to the government in an effort to end an investigation that resulted in earlier charges of bank fraud and money laundering.’ This was contained in a statement released on by the…
LAGOS OCTOBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former President Trump urged Israel to take out Iran’s nuclear facilities, and blasted President Biden for urging the Jewish state to exercise restraint. “I listened to Biden yesterday … they asked him, what do you think about Iran, would you hit Iran and he goes ‘as long as they don’t hit the…
LAGOS OCTOBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The U.S. military struck more than a dozen Houthi targets in Yemen on Friday, going after weapons systems, bases and other equipment belonging to the Iranian-backed rebels, U.S. officials confirmed. Military aircraft and warships bombed Houthi strongholds at roughly five locations, according to the officials. Houthi media said seven strikes hit the…
LAGOS AUGUST 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The State Security Service has detained a Nigerian journalist, Adejuwon Soyinka, who is the West African Regional Editor of the Conversation Africa, PREMIUM TIMES learnt on Sunday. Mr Soyinka, a former Pioneer Editor of the BBC Pidgin Service, was detained by SSS operatives at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos at…
LAGOS AUGUST 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Nigeria’s Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, along with other prominent Nigerian political figures, is presently attending the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, United States, as a special guest of the National Democratic Institute (NDI), a Washington, DC-based organisation dedicated to promoting democratic values worldwide. Among the notable attendees are the…
LAGOS JULY 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The United States, United Kingdom, and Canada have broken their silence on the planned #EndBadGovernance protest scheduled to hold across Nigeria from August 1 to 10, 2024. In separate travel advisories, the three countries over the weekend issued security alerts to their nationals in Nigeria, warning of potential violence during the proposed…