LAGOS JANUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-South Korea’s presidential guards and military troops prevented authorities from arresting impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol on Friday in a tense six-hour stand-off inside Yoon’s compound in the heart of Seoul. Yoon is under criminal investigation for insurrection over his Dec. 3 martial law bid that stunned South Korea and led to…
LAGOS JANUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Real Madrid moved top of La Liga in their first game of 2025 after a 2-1 win over Valencia on Friday, but all attention will be on Vinícius Júnior moving forward. Instead of Vinícius Júnior, Kylian Mbappé and Jude Bellingham running the show, the man of the night was initially Thibaut Courtois…
LAGOS JANUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A judge has ordered that Donald Trump will be sentenced on 10 January in his hush-money case in New York – less than two weeks before he is set to be sworn in as president. New York Justice Juan Merchan signalled he would not sentence Trump to jail time, probation or a…
LAGOS JANUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Anambra State Governor and 2023 Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has expressed admiration for lawyer and activist Dele Farotimi. Obi disclosed this in a tweet on Friday, following his visit to Farotimi, who recently returned from a correctional facility in Ekiti. The politician noted that Farotimi remains in high spirits…
LAGOS JANUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL, says the 150,000 barrels per day, bpd, Port Harcourt Refinery and Kaduna Refinery are currently undergoing a total overhaul designed to meet world-class standards. According to the NNPCL, the rehabilitation done at the 60,000 bpd Port Harcourt Refinery and Warri Refinery was not the typical…
LAGOS JANUARY 3RD (NEWSRS)-Uadiale Christiana Jacob, aka Christy Evan Osagie, a wanted convicted leader of an international human trafficking network has been arrested by the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja. The socialite whose network operates across the Middle Eastern countries with an operational base in the United Arab…
LAGOS JANUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Lagos lawyer and human right activist, Chief (Barr.) Malcolm Omirhobo has stated that former Presidential candidate of Labour Party in 2023 general election, Peter Obi visit to former Military President of Nigeria, General Ibrahim Babangida (IBB) is a minus. Recall that Peter Obi on Thursday visited a former Head of State Ibrahim…
LAGOS JANUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A police officer in Zambia has been arrested for allegedly releasing over a dozen prisoners so they could celebrate New Year’s Eve. Detective Inspector Titus Phiri “forcibly seized cell keys” on Tuesday morning whilst “in a state of intoxication,” Zambia’s Police Service said in a press release on Wednesday. “Subsequently, (Phiri) unlocked…