LAGOS MAY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Confederation of African Football, CAF, has kicked South Sudan out of the U-17 Nations Cup holding in Algeria over age falsification after five players in the Bright Star Juniors squad failed the Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) tests. The Confederation of African Football (CAF) had recently amended regulations regarding MRI. The part…
LAGOS MAY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Igbo youths under the aegis of Coalition of South East Youth Leaders, COSEYL, have expressed rage over the demolition of buildings in Ajao Estate by the Lagos State Government, accusing Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu of fanning the embers of ethnic hostilities. At least 13 houses have been pulled down at the estate since…
LAGOS May 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria began a quest for a third U-17 Africa Cup of Nations title in Algeria on Sunday evening with a 1-0 win over Zambia. The Eaglets attacked early in the game and swarmed on the Zambian but Abubakar Abdullahi who went to the ground in the second minute of the match…
LAGOS MAY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA Resource Centre), a leading anti-corruption organization, has written a petition to the Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), expressing its concern about the Federal Civil Service Commission employing staff with fake employment letters. The organization accused the commission of…
LAGOS MAY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Presidential Candidate of Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi, has felicitated with Nigerian workers on the occasion of 2023 Workers’ Day celebration, while calling on them to hold unto those values that encourage productivity in the nation. In his message to workers made available to newsmen, Obi encouraged Nigerian workers to see…
LAGOS MAY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A gas leak killed 11 people in India on Sunday, an official said, in the latest deadly industrial accident in the vast developing economy of 1.4 billion people. The gas leak happened in Giaspura, an industrial area of Ludhiana in the northern state of Punjab. “Eleven deaths are confirmed,” Mandeep Singh Sidhu,…
LAGOS MAY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Thousands of people, including many undocumented migrants, marched in Paris and other French cities Saturday, protesting planned changes to immigration laws and evictions from the Indian Ocean island of Mayotte. In the French capital, demonstrators marched behind a banner proclaiming “No to the Darmanin law. Against repression, imprisonment and deportations, for a…