LAGOS JUNE 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Thirty people were killed late Sunday in a triple suicide bombing in northeast Nigeria, emergency services reported, in an attack bearing the hallmarks of the Boko Haram jihadist group. Three bombers detonated their explosives outside a hall in Konduga, 38 kilometres (24 miles) from the Borno state capital Maiduguri, where football fans…
LAGOS JUNE 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ohanaeze Ndigbo youths on Sunday declared a state of emergency on the increasing number of killings in the South East and the country at large perpetrated by suspected herdsmen. The youths called on elected public office holders, the executive and the legislative arms respectively as well as the five South-East governors, including…
LAGOS JUNE 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said it will not comment on the controversy surrounding it’s alleged central server. Mr. Rotimi Oyekanmi, the Chief Press Secretary (CPS) to INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, said this is to avoid running afoul of the election petition tribunal sitting in Abuja. He said by…
LAGOS JUNE 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Real Madrid captain Sergio Ramos has not invited former teammate and star striker Cristiano Ronaldo for his wedding on Friday. As per AS, the 33-year-old married his fiancée seven years after his engagement in front of the 500 guests which included many current and former players of the Los Blancos. However, Ramos…
LAGOS JUNE 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Peter Obi has raised the alarm that Nigeria is collapsing and called on well-meaning Nigerians to help rescue the nation. Obi, who spoke with journalists at the weekend in Lagos, said that Nigeria was in a total mess because of the…
LAGOS JUNE 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Director-General (DG) of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Dr. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami would on Thursday this week in Lagos give a keynote to the 2019 Nigeria DigitalSENSE Forum on Internet Governance for Development (IG4D) and Nigeria IPv6 Roundtable. Disclosing this development, the Executive Director, DigitalSENSE Africa Media, Mrs…
LAGOS JUNE 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Unbeaten British heavyweight Tyson Fury outclassed Germany’s Tom Schwarz to score a victory by second-round technical knockout here Saturday. Fury, determined to put on a show on his Las Vegas debut, overwhelmed Schwarz with a dazzling display of ringcraft before unloading in the second round at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. The…
LAGOS JUNE 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria is one of the least peaceful places on earth, says 2019 Global Peace Index (GPI) report, despite claims by the All Progressives Congress-led government of President Muhammadu Buhari that the country is better than they met in 2015. The country, battling with banditry, economic stagnation, insurgency, kidnapping and an increasing rate…