LAGOS FEBRUARY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A brother-in-law of the Governor of Ebonyi State Governor, Mr David Umahi and a younger brother of his wife, Mrs. Rachel Umahi has been arrested and paraded by the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) police command in Abuja for kidnapping. The arrest of the young man, identified as Chukwu Betherand, also popularly known…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former Super Eagles of Nigeria defender , Yisa Sofoluwe is dead. Sofoluwe passed away after a battle with a brain ailment. Reports say the ex-footballer died on Tuesday at the Intensive Care Unit of the University Teaching Hospital, LUTH. He was diagnosed with mild cerebral atrophy Yisa Sofoluwe was born on…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An overwhelming majority of Senate Republicans voted Tuesday against proceeding with the impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump — signaling for a second time that his conviction is all but impossible. The 56-44 vote to try Trump for allegedly inciting the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol by his supporters followed…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Immediate past national chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, on Tuesday said the revalidation of the membership of the party called by the party’s Interim Caretaker Committee was contrary to the party’s constitution. Recall that a former APC interim national chairman, Chief Bisi Akande, also faulted the constitutionality of…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 4,000 of the Fulani herdsmen who fled from the southern Nigerian states following the reported quit notice served them have so far seeped into Labduga, a community in Kachia Local Government Area of Kaduna State, northwest Nigeria. A Kaduna State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) official, Hussaini Abdullahi, disclosed this…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has continued its offensive action against drug barons and cartels in Nigeria with the latest seizure of 40 parcels of cocaine weighing 43.11kilogram (100.05pds), with an estimated street value of over N32 billion. The consignment containing the illicit drug was put under surveillance by operatives of…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Super Eagles coach Gernot Rohr has revealed that the team’s last AFCON qualifier against Lesotho next month will be played at the refurbished National Stadium in Lagos. The match is fixed for March 30, 2021. Nigeria won the first leg in Lesotho 4-2 in 2019. This will be first time in many…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Following the Central Bank of Nigeria’s letter prohibiting banks from dealing in cryptocurrencies and closing down of suspected bank accounts, the Digital rights Lawyers Initiative (DRLI) has approached the Federal High Court challenging the said ban. In Suit No. FHC/L/CS/ 188/2021, DRLI sued the Central Bank of Nigeria and Securities and Exchange…