LAGOS FEBRUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Egypt has filed a complaint with the African soccer confederation against the appointment of a Gambian referee for the Pharaohs’ game against Cameroon in the African Cup of Nations semifinals on Thursday. The Egyptian Football Association did not give reasons for its complaint against Bakary Gassama, one of Africa’s best-known referees. He…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Heavy gunfire has been heard in the capital of Guinea-Bissau near the seat of the government, with President Umaro Sissoco Embalo calling it a “failed attack against democracy” in the West African country. Armed men surrounded the government palace on Tuesday, where President Embalo and Prime Minister Nuno Gomes Nabiam were believed…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The 91-year-old lecturer at Faculty of Law, Adeleke University, Ede, Prof. Toriola Oyewo Ajagbe is dead. Ajagbe was promoted to the rank of a Senior Advocate of Nigeria in 2021 after he clocked 90 years. Our correspondent gathered that the nonagenarian died at the University College Hospital, Ibadan on Tuesday where he…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A cleric, Pastor Akinlabi Olalere and his assistant, Akanni Adewale, had nasty experiences after they received serious beatings from aggrieved members of the church in Lagos State as properties worth millions of Naira were destroyed and they were rushed to an undisclosed hospital for treatment. P.M.EXPRESS reports that the incident happened at…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The long-awaited trial on the killing of Thomas Sankara, Burkina Faso’s influential leftist leader killed more than three decades ago, has been suspended as a result of the West African country’s recent coup. The trial has been paused until the constitution is reestablished, a lawyer for the prosecution said Monday. The suspension…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Reptiles and unwanted plants have taken over the moribund Bayelsa State Government-owned Creek Motel, Yenagoa, which has shockingly turned into a safe haven for criminals. The 90-room lodging, once the preferred hotel by businessmen, oil companies’ workers, top military personnel, politicians, among other clients, is a shadow of its old self at…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Comptroller General, Nigerian Customs Service, CGC,(Col) Hameed Ali (retd), last week inaugurated 18 gun boats and scanners in Rivers State. The 18 gun boats, our Correspondent reports, would be used by the Eastern Marine Command, EMC, of the service to reduce to the barest minimum if not eradicate the menace of smuggling…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Netflix and UNESCO are excited to announce the 21 shortlisted candidates who will go forward in the exciting short film competition ‘African Folktales, Reimagined’. What’s more – the quality of submissions received resulted in one extra candidate being added to the list, making it 21 filmmakers on the shortlist. The candidates were…