LAGOS DECEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The judge who presided over Hunter Biden’s federal tax case in Los Angeles rebuked President Biden on Tuesday for pardoning his son this week, saying he misrepresented the facts of his son’s criminal case when he announced the move. In a brief order, U.S. District Judge Mark Scarsi also accused the president…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A newly elected chairman of Ogbaru Local Government Area in Anambra State, Franklin Nwadialo, has been arrested in Texas, United States, for allegedly running a $3.3 million romance scam. In a statement on its website on Tuesday, the US Department of Justice announced that the 40-year-old was arrested by the Federal Bureau…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Labour Party Presidential Candidate in Nigeria’s 2023 election, Peter Obi, has joined other world leaders in congratulating U.S. President-Elect Donald Trump on his recent electoral victory. In a statement released by his media aide, Ibrahim Umar, Obi praised the American people for the orderly conduct of the election, commending U.S. electoral…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Iran’s supreme leader on Saturday threatened Israel and the US with “a crushing response” over attacks on Iran and its allies. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei spoke as Iranian officials are increasingly threatening to launch yet another strike against Israel after its October 26 attack on the Islamic Republic that targeted military bases and…
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…
