LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-China has responded to U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats of imposing tariffs on goods exported to the United States. Since taking office, the American leader has signed numerous executive orders and reiterated his intention to impose tariffs of up to 20% on many countries trading with Washington. In an interview with Fox…
LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Mexico denied a U.S. military plane access to land Thursday, at least temporarily frustrating the Trump administration’s plans to deport immigrants to the country, according to two U.S. defense officials and a third person familiar with the situation. Two Guatemala-bound Air Force C-17s, carrying about 80 people apiece, flew deportees out of…
LAGOS JANUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Operatives of the Ogun State Police Command yesterday, raided a kidnappers’ den in a creek in Ikorodu area of Ogun State and rescued Mrs Folashade Odumosu, wife of AIG Hakeem Odumosu (rted) who was kidnapped last week. Two kidnappers were killed during the rescue operation after kidnappers reportedly engaged the operatives in…
LAGOS JANUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Victor Osimhen, the prolific Nigerian striker currently playing for Galatasaray, finds himself at the center of a controversy that has nothing to do with his goal-scoring prowess. Turkish media, particularly Posta, report that the forward allegedly assaulted a journalist outside an Istanbul nightclub last night. The incident reportedly occurred as Osimhen was…
LAGOS JANUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The former Minister of Federal Capital Territory FCT General Jeremiah Useni has passed on at the age of 82 after a protracted illness. Governor Caleb Muftwang of Plateau State who disclosed this in a statement signed by his Director of Press and Public Affairs, Gyang Bere depicted that the elder statesman passed…
LAGOS JANUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The decomposed remains of a 45-year-old pastor, Esere Okilo, have been discovered in his home in Ekeki, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, more than a year after he was reported missing. Okilo, a native of Nembe-Bassambiri, had not been seen for 15 months before his sister stumbled upon his skeletal remains on Wednesday, January…
LAGOS JANUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Omoyele Sowore, the convener of the #RevolutionNow Movement, has revealed that a senior police officer has summoned him for questioning regarding a video he recorded during an altercation with police officers on the Murtala Muhammed International Airport Access Road in Lagos. The video shows police officers stationed on the road, apparently extorting…
LAGOS JANUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Court of Appeal sitting in Akure, Ondo State capital has upheld the death sentence of Ramon Adedoyin, a prominent businessman and hotelier, for his involvement in the murder of one Timothy Adegoke, a former postgraduate student of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Osun State. Delivering the judgment on Thursday, the…