LAGOS FEBRUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Leon Spinks, an undersized heavyweight who became undisputed champion when he outworked Muhammad Ali over 15 rounds in 1978, died Friday at 67 after a lengthy battle with prostate cancer. Along with his brother, Michael, Spinks was a gold medal winner on the 1976 U.S. Olympic boxing team that is regarded as…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two persons are currently being grilled by operatives of the Foreign Exchange Malpractices Section of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, following their arrest over the seizure of 3,013,500 Saudi Riyal on Monday February 1, 2021 at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. The money, sealed in brown envelopes and transported…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Central Bank of Nigeria on February 5, 2021, released a statement signed by the Director of Banking Supervision Bello Hassan and the Director of Payments System Management Department Musa I. Jomoh, prohibiting financial institutions in Nigeria from dealing in cryptocurrencies or facilitating payments for cryptocurrency exchange. Meaning all trading of cryptocurrency…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Kidnappers of Okechukwu Nnodim, a correspondent with The Punch have demanded the sum of N10m as ransom to secure his release. The kidnappers, according to sources closed to the family contacted Nnodim’s sister in Lagos on the telephone. The assailants had stormed his residence around Arab road area, Kubwa, Abuja, where they…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former Pastor with the Omega Fire Ministries International, Mike Davids, has sued the General Overseer of the church, Apostle Johnson Suleman, and the church for N2bn, for unlawfully interfering in his marriage. Davids had last week accused Apostle Suleman of hypnotising and committing adultery with his wife, Pastor Faith Edeko, who…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), FCT Council, has called for the immediate release of Okechukwu Nnodim, a correspondent with the Punch Newspapers. Nnodim was allegedly kidnapped by four gunmen in his Abuja home who gained access to his residence by scaling his fence after firing several gunshots in the air. In…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-This may not be the best of times for the former Lagos Police Public Relations Officer, CSP Ngozi Braide, after a lady reportedly swindled her N3.7m at a popular beauty and cosmetics store. P.M.EXPRESS reports that the incident happened at Vadang Beauty & Cosmetics Store located at Maryland area of Lagos, where…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Super Eagles defender Yisa Sofoluwe is in a critical medical condition at the Prince and Life Medical Hospital, Ikorodu, Lagos, The PUNCH has learnt. The 53-year-old Sofoluwe is currently being treated for mild cerebral atrophy and has been advised to undergo a brain magnetic resonance imaging scan, according to the radiologist…