Archive for: January, 2024

CAF 2023: Underdogs Cape Verde Rubbishes Ghana In 2-1 Win, Top Group B

LAGOS JANUARY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Cape Verde delivered a ridiculing upset as they secured a 2-1 win against Ghana in a Group B encounter at the African Cup of Nations. The match which held at the Felix Houphouet Boigny Stadium in Abidjan on Sunday night, saw the Blue Sharks take the lead in the 17th minute through […]

CAF: Wasteful Super Eagles Force Equatorial Guinea To 1-1 Draw

LAGOS JANUARY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Super Eagles were expected to have a clear run to the second round from Group A of the ongoing Africa Cup of Nations, having been pooled alongside hosts, Cote d’Ivoire and minnows, Equatorial Guinea and Guinea Bissau. But the Nigerian side showed yesterday that making it out of the group would […]

US: Man Who Spent 44 Years For Wrongful Conviction Receives $25m Compensation

LAGOS JANUARY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A North Carolina man who spent 44 years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of r@ping a woman in 1976 has reached a historic $25 million (about N25 billion) combined settlement in a civil lawsuit in the U.S. Ronnie Long, 68, received $22 million from the city and $3 million from the […]

Eye Witness Recounts How Gunmen Abduct 45 Passengers On Benue-Enugu Road

LAGOS JANUARY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Passengers numbering about 45 have been abducted by armed men in Orokam, along the Otukpo-Enugu Road in Ogbadigbo local government area of Benue State. The gunmen were said to have ambushed the three fully-loaded 15-seater commercial buses when they came out from nearby forests in Orokam and forced the drivers of the […]

Panic As EFCC  Reopens Fraud Cases Against Former Govs, Ministers Running Over N853.8bn

LAGOS JANUARY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has reopened fraud cases against thirteen former governors and some former ministers, with the amounts involved running into over N853.8bn. According to Sunday PUNCH, the amount at stake in the high-profile cases involving the former governors and ex-ministers was not less than N772.2bn, with the […]

Rivers  Community Leader Shot Dead In Front Of His Church

LAGOS JANUARY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Community Development Committee (CDC) Chairman of Mgboshimini in the Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers state has been shot and killed by assailants. It was gathered that the CDC Chairman identified as Chief Ndidi Livingstone was killed in front of his church, the Peculiar Faith Ministries in the Rumueme area of […]

Luis Suarez Re-Unites With Former Barca Team  Messi At Inter Miami

LAGOS JANUARY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Luis Suarez re-united with his former Barcelona team-mate Lionel Messi on Saturday and said he hoped his move to Inter Miami would boost his chances of competing in June’s Copa America with Uruguay. The 36-year-old striker took part in his first training session with the Major League Soccer club on Saturday following […]

Truck Crushes Three To Death On Okada Plying One Way Along Lagos-Badagry Expressway

LAGOS JANUARY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Operatives of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) today recovered 2 dead bodies trapped under an empty long ‘Man-Diesel’ truck by Barracks Bus-stop along Lagos- Badagry Expressway, Lagos The Director, Public Affairs and Enlightenment Department of LASTMA Mr. Adebayo Taofiq confirmed that the 2 (two) recovered dead bodies were passengers on […]

Dismissed Lawsuit: Judge Orders Trump to Pay Nearly $400,000 To New York Times’

LAGOS JANUARY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A judge in New York has ordered former President Donald Trump to pay nearly $400,000 to cover The New York Times’ legal fees from a now-dismissed lawsuit he brought against the paper, three of its reporters and his niece. Trump sued the New York Times in 2021, accusing the paper of conspiring […]

Beta Edu Is “Gone” – Aso Rock Source

LAGOS JANUARY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The suspended minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Betta Edu, faces an uncertain future, with indications suggesting that her return to office may be unlikely. Speaking anonymously, sources from the presidency hinted that the alleged scandal surpasses what has been made public, and Edu might not resume her ministerial duties. One […]

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