LAGOS AUGUST 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Tyson Fury has been ranked as the best heavyweight boxer in the world by Ring Magazine ahead of rival Anthony Joshua. Fury won the WBC and ‘The Ring’ heavyweight titles after knocking out American Deontay Wilder back in February and has dethroned his British rival at the top of the division. The ‘Gypsy…
LAGOS AUGUST 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Many commercial buses in Lagos have returned to carrying full-capacity, as against the directive of the state government that all commercial busies should load a maximum of 60 per cent of their capacity. Several buses observed by PREMIUM TIMES along Ikorodu road loaded full capacity, The only ones who still adhere to…
LAGOS AUGUST 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The All Progressives Congress (APC) has beckoned to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar to return to the party in the spirit of reconciliation. The ruling political grouping also extended the olive branch to ex-Senate President Bukola Saraki and Sokoto State Governor Aminu Tambuwal, as well as others who defected in 2015 till…
LAGOS AUGUST 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A Georgia teenager who lost both his parents to COVID-19 within a week is urging people to take precautions during the pandemic. Justin Hunter told Atlanta ABC affiliate WSB that he and his parents had all tested positive for the coronavirus last month. He was asymptomatic, but soon his mom and dad…
LAGOS AUGUST 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-New yams are beginning to flood markets in Onitsha, the commercial city of Anambra. A survey by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday showed that farmers from agrarian communities such as Anam and Ogbaru brought their yam produce to Marine Market, Onitsha, to sell to the public. NAN reports that the farmers,…
LAGOS AUGUST 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Senate has revealed that the new head of the Interim Management Committee, IMC, of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Professor Kemebradikumo Pondei and other members of the Committee now collect 20 per cent to 30 per cent of contract sums before Contractors are paid. This is contained in the report…
LAGOS AUGUST 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Suspected militants from Islamist group Boko Haram killed 15 people and wounded six others in a grenade attack on a camp for displaced people in northern Cameroon on Sunday, a security source and a local official told Reuters. In the early hours, assailants threw a grenade into a group of sleeping people…
LAGOS AUGUST 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A father of two children, Adeyinka Abiodun, has been rescued from committing suicide over a debt of N500,000. Abiodun who resides in the Ikotun area of Lagos State had embarked on a mission to take his own life by jumping into the lagoon. He, however, failed in the bid as he was…