LAGOS AUGUST 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)=A former Customary Court of Appeal President, Mrs Margaret Igbeta has been killed in her home located at Wantor Kwange Street in Makurdi metropolis. Igbeta who is now 72 was found dead in a pool of her blood on Thursday night in one of her rooms. Reports of her assassination on Friday…
LAGOS AUGUST 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan says she will be back stronger next year after losing the world women’s 100m hurdles crown to Jamaica’s Danielle Williams on Thursday in Budapest. In an interview with journalists after the game, Amusan said, it was quite “a journey getting into the final” despite all she had gone through…
LAGOS AUGUST 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The leadership of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has come under fire as 17 vessels and helicopters it acquired in 2019 to fight insecurity on Nigerian waters have not yet been deployed, SaharaReporters has learnt. Sources told SaharaReporters that apart from the fact that the kind of vessels imported…
LAGOS AUGUST 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-With less than three weeks to the senior national team of Nigeria final Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers game against Sao Tome and Principe in Uyo, the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) is yet to reach an agreement on the extension of the contract of the head coach of the team Jose Peseiro….
LAGOS AUGUST 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Niger has authorised Mali and Burkina Faso’s armed forces to intervene on its territory in case of an attack, the countries said in a joint statement on Thursday, a possible sign the junta in Niger plans to keep resisting regional pressure to stand down. The main West African bloc ECOWAS has been…
LAGOS AUGUST 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin’s doomed private plane showed no signs of distress until a sudden drop 30 seconds before the deadly crash in Russia — amid speculation that the rogue warlord’s plane may have been downed by a bomb hidden in a crate of wine. The Embraer Legacy 600 executive jet, with…