LAGOS SEPTEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Iran and the U.S. executed the final steps of a highly complex diplomatic deal that saw five Americans released from an Iranian prison on Monday. The prisoners landed safely on U.S. soil on Tuesday morning after years spent locked away in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison. President Biden released a statement praising the…
= LAGOS SEPTEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Peter Gregory Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, expressed his admiration and enthusiasm upon learning about the remarkable achievements of two Nigerian doctors, Hadiza Galadanci and Abosede Afolabi, in combating maternal and newborn mortality worldwide. He shared his response via a post on his verified Twitter account. In his…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Members of the House of Representatives have frowned over the sale of 82 vehicles for the sum of N5.8 million over the past 12 years by the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA). .This was as the NIMASA Executive Director, Mr. Chudi Offodile announced the sale during the resumed investigative hearing…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 4.8-magnitude earthquake struck central Italy north of Florence on Monday morning, sending residents into the streets but causing no immediate damage, authorities said. Schools were closed in some areas as a precaution and trains were delayed pending checks on the railway lines. Italy’s National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) measured…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-John Oboh, popular as ‘Mighty Mouse’, the legendary music producer who created the Ajegunle rhythm in the 90s, is dead. He died today, September 18, in Lagos after battling illness suspected to be cancer. A source close to the family confirmed his death to Vanguard. Attempts to reach Mighty Mouse’s sister, Mabel…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Tyson Fury has no interest in fighting Anthony Joshua despite the fact boxing fans are longing for an all-British bout between the two heavyweights. Fury described Joshua as a ‘big bum-dosser’ who was beaten by a ‘fat man’ and stated their bout was ‘dead’ in the water following AJ’s second defeat to Oleksandr Usyk. …
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The police have arrested a 40-year-old man, Adetomiwa Adeyinka, at Ahmadiyya Ijaiye, Ojokoro area of Lagos, for allegedly strangling his girlfriend who visited him in his house and sleeping with her corpse. Adeyinka, on September 12, went to the police, and lied that the lady, 36-year-old Chinonso Okomadu, who he referred…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu held talks with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in New York, seeking to advance economic cooperation between the two largest economies in Africa, his spokesperson said on Monday. The two African leaders met ahead of the United Nations General Assembly that is scheduled to start this week, they…