LAGOS MAY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Victor Osimhen said Thursday that he will never forget winning Napoli‘s first Serie A title in over three decades after his goal finally pushed southern Italy’s biggest club over the line. Nigeria striker Osimhen’s 22nd league goal of the season earned Napoli a 1-1 draw at Udinese which was enough to win…
LAGOS MAY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Napoli won its first Italian soccer league title since the days when Diego Maradona played for the club, sealing the trophy with a 1-1 draw at Udinese on Thursday. The “scudetto” (championship) set off wild scenes of celebrations throughout Naples, inside the stadium in Udine and beyond. Maradona led Napoli to its…
LAGOS MAY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The police in Imo State, south-east Nigeria, said they have arrested nine suspected members of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) who allegedly killed five officers and a couple in the state. The police spokesperson in the state, Henry Okoye, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday. PREMIUM TIMES reported how…
LAGOS MAY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-More than 12 people, including a nine-year-old child, have been reportedly kidnapped by gunmen suspected to be Fulani bandits along the Afuze-Ihievbe-Auchi road, in Owan East Local Government Area of Edo State. The incident which reportedly occurred on Tuesday, between 6 and 7 pm, was made known in a viral video. It…
LAGOS MAY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Sam Omatseye, a renowned Nigerian columnist, has revealed that two governors were also making lists of what they will ask the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, to do but they threw the lists away after Tinubu told Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State that he owed him nothing. While speaking during an interview with…
LAGOS MAY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A driver, Sunday Tanko, on Thursday, appeared before a Kaduna Magistrates’ Court for alleged theft of his employer’s Automated Teller Machine (ATM) card and N750, 000. Thirty-four-year-old Tanko, who resides in Barnawa, Kaduna, is facing a count charge of stealing. He, however, pleaded not guilty. The prosecutor, Insp Chidi Leo, told the…
LAGOS MAY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Association Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA) has rejected the 20 percent reduction in tariff being put forward by the two handling companies in the aviation industry, Skyway Aviation Handling Company SAHCO and Nigerian Aviation Handling Company NAHCO. At a meeting held Tuesday to resolve the issues between the agents and the…
LAGOS MAY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Veteran pop singer, Chris Mba, has died after a long battle with heart issues. The musician, who was famous in the 1980s for his jerry curl and hits like ‘Funky Situation’, ‘Baby Don’t Cry’, ‘Making My Way’ and ‘Love Everlasting’, died on Wednesday at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital. Michael Odiong, the…