LAGOS AUGUST 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Bordeaux striker Samuel Kalu collapsed on the pitch in a French Ligue 1 game at Marseille on Sunday where temperatures hit a sweltering 30 degrees. The 23-year-old Nigerian international fainted and slumped to the Stade Velodrome surface in the early stages of the match. Worried teammates gathered around the stricken Kalu and […]
Zambia’s veteran opposition leader, Hakainde Hichilema has won the southern African country’s presidency after taking more than 50% of the vote. Hichilema was declared president–elect by Esau Chulu, Chairman of the Electoral Commission of Zambia, early Monday after results for 155 of the country’s 156 constituencies were announced. Hichilema, a 59-year old businessman contesting the […]
LAGOS AUGUST 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The spokesman for the Taliban’s political office on Sunday declared the war was over in Afghanistan and called for peaceful relations with the international community. Spokesman Mohammad Naeem said in interviews with Al Jazeera TV the Taliban did not want to live in isolation and the type of rule and the form […]
LAGOS AUGUST 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Islamic police force in Kano, a Muslim-majority state in Nigeria, has raised eyebrows after it ordered shops to only use headless mannequins to advertise clothing. “Islam frowns on idolatry,” Haruna Ibn-Sina, the commander of the Sharia police known as the hisbah, told the BBC. “With the head on it looks like […]
LAGOS AUGUST 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As Taliban fighters moved Sunday into Afghanistan’s capital city, the nation’s leader fled. President Ashraf Ghani flew from Kabul to an unknown destination. At least one news report said he traveled to Uzbekistan. Later Sunday, Ghani posted an explanation for his exit, saying if he stayed, more Afghans would die and “bloodshed” […]
LAGOS AUGUST 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian importers have continued to further hit in losses running into billions of naira on their cargoes trapped at Benin Republic borders. Daily Sun learnt that the situation forced some importers to pay additional costs to reroute the goods via Togo port to Nigeria. Last month, the government of the Republic of Benin […]
LAGOS AUGUST 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Taliban captured another three provincial capitals in Afghanistan on Friday, completing their sweep of the country’s south in a lightning offensive that is gradually encircling Kabul, just weeks before the U.S. is set to officially end its two-decade war. The latest significant blow was the loss of the capital of Helmand […]
LAGOS AUGUST 13 (NEWSRANGERS)-A Lokoja Chief Magistrate’s Court has sentenced a staffer of Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC), Mr James Olayemi, to six months imprisonment for unlawful disconnection of electricity supply to the premises of the company’s customer, Dennis Osanwuta. In the judgment delivered on Thursday in Lokoja, the Chief Magistrate, Dr Tanko Muhammed, also […]
LAGOS AUGUST 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari, on Thursday, visited Bola Tinubu, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), in London, United Kingdom (UK). The President had travelled to London for the Global Education Summit on Financing Global Partnership for Education (GPE 2021-2025), which held on July 29. Femi Adesina, presidential spokesman, had said Buhari […]
LAGOS AUGUST 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former African champions, Nigeria’s Super Eagles, have dropped two places to the 34th position in the current FIFA ranking. The Gernot Rohr lads polled 1480 points to sit 34th in the world and fifth in Africa in the ranking released on Thursday. On the continent, Nigeria is behind Senegal, Tunisia, Algeria and […]
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