LAGOS DECEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Leftist candidate, Gabriel Boric has won Chile’s presidential election to become the country’s youngest ever leader. In what was expected to be a tight race, the 35-year-old former student protest leader defeated his far-right rival José Antonio Kast by 10 points. Mr Boric told supporters he would look after democracy, promising curbs…
LAGOS DECEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The first match of the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) for the 2021/2022 season played at the Muhammadu Dikko Stadium in Katsina on Sunday between Katsina United and Enugu Rangers International was nearly marred with drama in the second half as the visiting side goalkeeper refused to leave the football pitch after…
LAGOS DECEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Republic of Benin, Niger Republic and Togo made no payment for the electricity supplied to them from Nigeria in the second quarter of 2021, the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission has said. In its just released Second Quarter Report 2021, the NERC stated that the power firms of the three nations and…
LAGOS DECEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Inspector-General of Police, Alkali Usman, has submitted the probe panel report on suspended Head of the Intelligence Response Team, Abba Kyari, to the Police Service Commission (PSC). Kyari was investigated over his alleged role in a $1.1m internet scam by an Instagram influencer, Abbas Ramon, aka Hushpuppi, and four others. The…
LAGOS DECEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Matchday 18 is almost over and it has brought good news to Barcelona. First of all, the Catalans defeated Elche 3-2. Secondly, some of their rivals slipped. Real Sociedad surprisingly lost to Villarreal at home (3-1) while Real Betis suffered a defeat in Bilbao against Athletic (3-2). Rayo Vallecano climbed to fourth…
LAGOS DECEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Justice Sherifat Solebo of the Lagos Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja has sentenced a self-acclaimed prophetess, Linda Mabi-Praise to five years imprisonment over a fraud of N128 million fraud. Mabi-Praise was sentenced after she was found guilty of the allegation brought against her by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)….
LAGOS DECEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Director-General of Voice of Nigeria (VON) and founding member of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Osita Okechukwu, has urged former Lagos state Governor, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu to be a kingmaker, drop his presidential ambition and back a younger candidate from the south in line with the zoning convention. Okechukwu said,…
LAGOS DECEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Serious crisis is currently brewing in the President Muhammadu Buhari Support Organization (BSO), over alleged embezzlement of campaign funds running into hundreds of millions by the Coordinating head, and Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Mohammad Mahmood Abubakar. Aside, pocketing the cash monies donated to the Pro-Buhari group by his friends…
