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…
LAGOS JULY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Vice President Kamala Harris said on Thursday that she’s “ready to debate Donald Trump,” agreeing to the Sept. 10 date previously set to be hosted by ABC News. “[Trump] agreed to that previously. Now here he is backpedaling, and I’m ready and I think the voters deserve to see the split screen…
LAGOS JULY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-President Biden’s decision to bow out of the November election leaves a path for Vice President Kamala Harris to replace him that would have seemed unlikely for most of the last three years, when she was seen as a drag on his reelection prospects as her approval numbers in polls lagged behind…
LAGOS JULY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-US intelligence discovered earlier this year that the Russian government planned to assassinate the chief executive of a powerful German arms manufacturer that has been producing artillery shells and military vehicles for Ukraine, according to five US and western officials familiar with the episode. The plot was one of a series of Russian plans to…
LAGOS JULY 2ND(NEWSRNAGERS)-The Supreme Court ruled Monday that former President Donald Trump is entitled to some presidential immunity from criminal prosecution in the federal election interference case against him. In a highly anticipated 6-3 decision in Trump v. United States, the justices decided that Trump does not have the broad presidential immunity that he has…