LAGOS SEPTEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Obi, has said that he returned from a trip to Bangladesh “to receive with shock, and pain the very sad and ugly news of the beheading of a Labour Party Chieftain in Abia state, Zachary Maduka.” Mr. Obi had been in the Bangladeshi…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-) — Hundreds of soccer fans stormed into a hotel in Tehran on Monday, hoping for a glimpse of star player Cristiano Ronaldo after he arrived with his Saudi teammates ahead of a game. Chanting “Ronaldo, Ronaldo,” the fans pushed past police, filling the corridors and public spaces of the Espians Palace…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The military leaders of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger signed a mutual defense pact over the weekend, establishing the so-called Alliance of Sahel States. All three of the West African nations, which neighbor one another, have military governments that seized control in a coup conducted since 2020, with Niger’s civilian-led government being…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A senior US official on Monday applauded tough reforms taken by Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu since coming to office in May, saying they provided an opportunity for Africa’s largest economy. Tinubu has ended a long-standing fuel subsidy that kept the price of petrol artificially low but cost the government billions of dollars…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Operatives of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) today confirmed that a motor boy fell off and died immediately as a truck conveying wheat overturned under heavy rain on Otedola Bridge inward Berger, Lagos. LASTMA Oduyebo Oluwole ‘Zebra’ (Zone 2) disclosed that the fatal accident caused severe congestion for road users…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Customs Service has said it has reduced the number of checkpoints in the corridor along the Seme border to Mile 2 from sixty to three, for ease of business. The Acting Comptroller-General, Bashir Adeniyi, revealed this during his opening remark at the National Trade Facilitation Committee, NTFC, stakeholders retreat…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The leadership of Labour Party has chided Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, for accusing the opposition party of attempting to hoodwink Nigerians into believing that its presidential candidate, Peter Obi, won the February 25 election. The objection is coming in the wake of Soyinka’s declaration on Wednesday at an event titled, “The Lives…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Police Force Headquarters, Abuja has reiterated its commitment to comprehensively investigate the death of musician, late Ilerioluwa Oladimeji Aloba, known as Mohbad, who recently passed away. Force Public Relations Officer, Force Headquarters, Abuja ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi in a statement disclosed that the Lagos State Commissioner of Police has been tasked to…