LAGOS FEBRUARY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Confederation of African football (CAF) has informed Angola that there first choice goalkeeper Neblu isn’t eligible for the quarter final game against Nigeria at the ongoing Africa Cup of Nations in Ivory Coast, OwnGoalNigeria.com reports. Neblu was sent off in the round of 16 win over Namibia for handling the ball…
LAGOS JANUARY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Religious freedom violations by totalitarian and repressive governments are widespread, but an uptick in violations and threats to religious freedom within and from democracies has advocates increasingly concerned. Several speakers and events Wednesday at the International Religious Freedom (IRF) Summit — the world’s premier annual gathering of international religious freedom advocates and…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the last general election, Peter Obi, has lamented over the working conditions of university lecturers. The former Anambra governor disclosed that his friend, a university professor of about 14 years, begged him to put in words for him so he could be appointed…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Taraba State Police Command on Tuesday says its officers rejected a bribe of over N8.5 million offered them after they intercepted a vehicle in Jalingo, the state capital. Joseph Eribo, the state commissioner of police disclosed this while parading some suspects at the state police headquarters in Jalingo. According to the…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Inter Miami lost its third straight preseason game, 6-0 to Al-Nassr, on Thursday. It bled goals to the Saudi Arabian club, even with Cristiano Ronaldo absent. With Lionel Messi also resting, reportedly protecting against an injury, Miami didn’t score. And naturally, panic began to percolate. This was Miami’s third goose egg in…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A small plane crashed at a Florida mobile home park on Thursday, killing several people aboard the plane and in one home, fire officials said. The pilot of the single-engine Beechcraft Bonanza V35 reported an engine failure shortly before the aircraft went down at about 7 p.m., the Federal Aviation Administration reported….
LAGOS FEBRUARY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Chinese billionaire banker Bao Fan, who has been missing for almost a year, has resigned from his financial firm, China Renaissance Holdings Ltd. He stepped down “for health reasons and to spend more time on his family affairs,” the bank said in a statement. Mr Bao’s unexplained disappearance in February last year…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A hangar under construction on the grounds of the airport in Boise, Idaho, collapsed Wednesday, killing three people and injuring another nine, officials said. Five of those injured in the collapse are in critical condition, the city said in a statement released Wednesday night. Authorities responded at about 5 p.m. to a…