LAGOS DECEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former board member of the Nigeria Squash Federation (NSF), Gad Sambo Yuyu, is dead. Gad Yuyu, a coach and board member of the Bauchi State Squash Association, passed on on Sunday evening. A relative, Yuyu Sambo Nehemiah announced his brother’s exit via social networking service, Facebook, on Monday. “My brother, we…
LAGOS DECEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The United Kingdom has recorded its death related to the Omicron variant of the COVID-19 virus. The Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, disclosed this on Monday while on a visit to a vaccination clinic in west London, the BBC reports. Johnson is said to have advised British residents to put aside the idea…
LAGOS DECEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria has regained the top spot among crude oil producing countries in Africa with the nation’s crude oil production averaging 1.27 million barrels per day in November. The Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) made this known in its Oil Market Report for December which was obtained by the News Agency…
LAGOS DECEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)- A Nigerian woman is facing a maximum of 30-year jail term in the United States for a $1.9 COVID-19 relief fund fraud. A federal jury convicted Lola Shalewa Barbara Kasali, a 24-year-old Texas resident on Wednesday for defrauding the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) of over $1.9 million in loans guaranteed by…
LAGOS DECEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Jehovah’s Witness celebrated the religious group’s 100 years presence in Nigeria on Sunday since its presence in 1921. The celebratory centenary event was a three–hour programme titled, ‘History-100 Years of Courage! Jehovah’s Witness in Nigeria’. The programme featured the organisation’s early beginnings in the country from 1921 broken into segments; “1921-1946: Small…
LAGOS DECEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The United Kingdom is set to reduce travel restrictions and scrap the infamous red list which came back into use after the outbreak of the Omicron variant of the COVID-19 virus. A UK newspaper, Daily Mail, reports that the Transport Secretary, Grant Shapps, had been able to convince his colleagues that the…
LAGOS DECEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has barred unvaccinated corps members from its camps nationwide. NYSC Director-General, Brigadier General Shuaibu Ibrahim, said from the next Orientation Exercise in the year 2022, all the incoming PCMs will show evidence of vaccination before they would be allowed into the camp for registration. He disclosed…
LAGOS DECEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A journey of more than five years with German coach Gernot Rohr came to an end yesterday, it’s so sad how the game ended for the coach. Basically on his achievements, he gave it his best shot for the Super Eagles. He took the country to the World Cup in 2018 in…