LAGOS JANUARY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two Nigerian Army soldiers and seven illegal miners were killed in a clash over huge gold nuggets at Magama, a border village in Katsina State’s Jibiya Local Government Area. The clash took place on Wednesday around 6 p.m., according to the DAILY NIGERIAN, after artisanal miners discovered large gold nuggets in one…
LAGOS JANUARY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Real Madrid, Chelsea and other suitors have reportedly been told to “fork” out €80 million to land Napoli goal machine, Victor Osimhen. A report by Catalan outlet El Nacional, Serie A giants said Napoli will be demanding €80 million if they are forced to part ways with Osimhen. Real Madrid and Chelsea are…
LAGOS DECEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen suspected to be Fulani herders, over the weekend, killed a commercial driver identified as Oluwatosin Aruwajoye, and abducted five passengers, while another person, Ibrahim Tiamiyu, was shot in the thigh at the Onigaari axis of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. One of the passengers, however, managed to escape. The driver’s corpse has been…
LAGOS JANUARY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Another batch of 30 students and a teacher of Federal Government College, Birnin Yauri, Kebbi State, have been released after 207 days in captivity. The freed teacher and students arrived in Birnin Kebbi, Kebbi State capital, on Saturday night with the state government saying that they would undergo medical screening and support…
LAGOS JANUARY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A house wife, Maryam Abubakar, who allegedly supplies women to bandits at Galadimawa Forest in Giwa Local Government Area of Kaduna State, has been arrested. Maryam, who was arrested by the Intelligence Response Team, a special police unit fighting kidnapping, confessed that she had been luring women including her own daughters and…
LAGOS JANUARY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A court in military-ruled Myanmar sentenced on Monday ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to four years in jail on several charges including possession of unlicensed walkie-talkies, a source familiar with the proceedings said. The court handed down a two-year sentence to Suu Kyi for breaching the export-import law by possessing the…
LAGOS JANUARY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Vincent Aboubakar scored a brace of penalties to give hosts Cameroon a 2-1 win over Burkina Faso on Sunday in Yaounde as the Africa Cup of Nations finally got under way after a build-up troubled by the coronavirus. A raft of positive Covid-19 cases among competing teams has marked the days leading…
LAGOS JANUARY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Arsenal became the highest-profile casualties of the FA Cup third round as the 14-time winners lost 1-0 at Nottingham Forest, but Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur avoided early exits after scares against lower-league sides on Sunday. Forest repeated their third-round win over Arsenal in 2018 thanks to substitute Lewis Grabban’s 83rd-minute finish. Liverpool…