LAGOS JANUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Wife of presidential frontrunner and candidate of Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 general elections, Margaret Peter Obi, has said that Nigerian women must reject past governments which refused to give the women opportunity in their administration. Mrs Obi also assured Nigerians of holistic health insurance cover for the poorest in the…
LAGOS JANUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Military coups were a regular occurrence in Africa in the decades after independence and there is concern they are starting to become more frequent. There were two takeovers in Burkina Faso in 2022 as well as failed coup attempts in Guinea Bissau, The Gambia and the island nation of Sao Tome and…
LAGOS JANUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The 1980s Brazil international Walter Casagrande, a fearsome striker of the era and now a columnist with views just as robust, was unequivocal about the way in which Pele had been treated in death by his successors in the famous yellow shirt. “The vast majority resent the King,” Casagrande wrote in his…
LAGOS JANUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Some of Brazil’s best-known footballers have faced a furious backlash as fans and pundits questioned why they had failed to attend ceremonies bidding farewell to Pelé. Hundreds of thousands of people waited for hours under a burning sun on Monday to file past the recently deceased soccer legend’s coffin at Santos’ Vila…
LAGOS JANUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The bodies of four people killed in a late December helicopter crash in the Gulf of Mexico have been recovered, company officials confirmed Tuesday. The helicopter crashed at around 8:40 a.m. Dec. 29 while carrying a pilot and three oil platform workers, according to the U.S. Coast Guard’s 8th District. The aircraft…
LAGOS JANUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The lifeless body of the abducted son of the slain staff of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr Kehinde Fatinoye, has been found in Ogun river. DAILY POST reported on Sunday that Fatinoye and his wife were murdered by yet-to-be-identified persons in their Ibara GRA residence in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital….
LAGOS DECEMBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A foremost Lagos Lawyer, Dr. Khrushchev Ekwueme, has died after slumping during his legal firm’s end-of-year party. The Enugu State-born lawyer, 56, was a Partner in the Dispute Resolution Practice of Olaniwun Ajayi LP. Though the tragic incident happened on December 21, 2022, it has been unreported by the serious online outfits…
LAGOS JANUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Four persons, including the People Democratic Party (PDP) leader, has been reportedly killed by gunmen in Anambra State. A source who does not want to be mentioned in the print told Tribune Online that the incident occurred at Obi Maduka’s compound within Nodu town square, Nodu Okpuno, in Awka South Local Government…