LAGOS OCTOBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Shell has named a new Managing Director for its deep-water subsidiary in Nigeria, Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company Limited (SNEPCo.) He is Ronald Adams, formerly Chief Executive Officer of Atlantic LNG, Trinidad and Tobago. He takes over from Elohor Aiboni who proceeds on international assignment to Brunei Shell Petroleum (BSP) as…
LAGOS OCTOBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Cameroon Football Federation (Fecafoot) chief Samuel Eto’o has been banned from attending the national team’s matches for six months after violating FIFA’s disciplinary regulations, football’s governing body said. The former Barcelona striker has been president of Fecafoot since 2021 and will now be barred from all men’s and women’s games across various…
LAGOS OCTOBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A suspected gas explosion has occurred at the residence of a Nigerian journalist, Abdulkareem Haruna, sending shockwaves through the neighborhood. This was made known on Monday by Zagazola Makama, a Lake Chad Basin counterterrorism and insurgency expert, in a post on his X handle. Makama said that the explosion, believed to have…
LAGOS OCTOBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers could be trapped in a besieged town as Russian forces complete their encirclement and close in. In a desperate plea, one Ukrainian soldier described how evacuation routes out of Vuhledar had been cut and food, ammunition and fuel were running low. “The situation in Vuhledar is, to put…
LAGOS OCTOBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the conscription of 133,000 new servicemen in Russia’s autumn draft that starts Oct. 1 and goes until the end of the year, according to a Kremlin decree published on Monday. The decree, published in Russian state-run newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta, calls to carry out the draft of…