LAGOS JANUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Franz Beckenbauer, one of the greatest football players of all time, has died at the age of 78. Beckenbauer, nicknamed ‘Der Kaiser’, won the World Cup with West Germany as captain in 1974 and a manager in 1990. The former defender is one of three men, along with Brazil’s Mario Zagallo –…
LAGOS JANUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Policemen from zone six of Nigeria Police Force have arrested a 44-year-old man, Ogban Emmanuel, for allegedly leading some youths in Adim town in Biase Local Government Area of Cross River State to set ablaze a church. Christ Divine Liberation International Ministry is founded by one Rev. Victor Okon, who reportedly petitioned…
LAGOS JANUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The criminal elements who abducted Alhaji Mansoor Al-Kadriyar and his six children are demanding the sum of N60 million as ransom for their release. The victims were abducted on Tuesday night, January 2, 2024, in the Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory. According to the Daily Trust, the bandits later…
LAGOS JANUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ten persons were on Sunday night reported kidnapped by marauders, who invaded Sagwari Layout Estate in Dutse axis of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). Eye witnesses claimed the kidnappers appeared like herdsmen to mask their identity when they attacked the estate after 7p.m. One of the victims, who sent a distress message…
LAGOS JANUARY 9TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-Social media has gone agog, following a three-part expose on the alleged secret lives of the late televangelist, Prophet Temitope Balogun Joshua (TB Joshua) by the British Broadcasting Corporation’s Africa Eye. The over-150-minute long video, divided into three episodes and published on YouTube, titled, “Disciples: The Cult of TB Joshua”, showed…
LAGOS JANUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Dangote Group, controlled by billionaire Aliko Dangote, slammed a visit to its Lagos offices last week by Nigeria’s anti-graft commission and said the move was aimed at causing embarrassment. “No accusations of wrong doing” have been made against the company, it said in a statement released over the weekend after the Jan….
LAGOS JANUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s president has suspended the minister of humanitarian affairs with immediate effect and asked the corruption watchdog to investigate financial transactions involving her ministry, the president’s spokesperson said on Monday. Betta Edu, the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, is the first minister to be suspended, less than six months after…
LAGOS JANUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Karen Johnson went to her Lutheran church so regularly as a child that she won a perfect attendance award. As an adult, she taught Sunday school. But these days, Johnson, a 67-year-old counter attendant at a slot-machine parlor, no longer goes to church. She still identifies as an evangelical Christian, but she…