58-Years-Old  Former Honduran  President Jailed For 45 Years On Drug Charges

LAGOS JUNE 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A court in New York on Wednesday sentenced former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez to 45 years in prison after he was convicted of trafficking hundreds of tons of cocaine into the United States. Anti-Hernandez protesters gathered outside the Manhattan courthouse ahead of sentencing brandishing placards decrying the former head of state’s…

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US Hunts Scammers, Traces Fraudulently Transferred $$5.3m funds To Hong Kong, Nigeria, Others

LAGOS JUNE 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The US government has filed a civil forfeiture action to recover $5.3 million linked to a business email compromise (BEC) scheme that defrauded a Massachusetts workers union. In January 2023, a spoofed email led the union to transfer $6.4 million to a fraudulent account. The funds were then routed through various international…

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‘Expect A  Big War’ If Iran Traces President’s Helicopter Crash To Enemies- Expert

LAGOS MAY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Iran could launch an all-out war on the world if it turns out an “enemy state” had a hand in the fatal helicopter crash that saw the country’s president killed overnight. The wreckage of the ill-fated US-made Bell 212 helicopter was discovered by rescue teams today, with initial reports suggesting that the…

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Wife Of Detained Binance Executive Reports Nigeria Govt To US Parliament

LAGOS MAY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Yuki Gambaryan, the wife of the detained Binance Holdings Limited executive, Tigran Gambaryan, hass told the US Parliament that the Nigerian Government kept his husband, Tigran Gambaryan, in Kuje prison together with Boko Haram terrorists and bandits. Yuki, represented by her congressman, Rich McCormick, spoke at Tuesday’s House Foreign Affairs Committee roundtable…

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FBI Arrests Nigerian Trying To Flee U.S. With family After Contract Procurement Scam

LAGOS APRIL 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) on April 2 took into custody Ifediora Oli, a dual citizen of Nigeria and the United States, for allegedly conniving with two persons to defraud the District of Columbia public transit system after securing a Covid-19 testing kit contract worth more than half a million dollars….

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Gunmen Kill Over 60, Injured 145  In Concert Attack Near Moscow

LAGOS 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Camouflage-clad gunmen opened fire with automatic weapons at concertgoers near Moscow on Friday, killing at least 60 people and injuring 145 in an attack claimed by Islamic State militants. In the deadliest attack in Russia since the 2004 Beslan school siege, gunmen sprayed civilians with bullets just before Soviet-era rock group “Picnic” was…

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