LAGOS AUGUST 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Real Madrid is pursuing a blockbuster deal for forward Kylian Mbappé, although Paris Saint-Germain is seemingly holding out for a better offer. PSG sporting director Leonardo on Wednesday said the French club has rejected an offer of about $188 million from Madrid but added that it is willing to negotiate. Leonardo told…
LAGOS AUGUST 26TH (NEWSRANGERS0-Attackers shot dead at least 36 people and destroyed buildings in a night raid on a village near the central Nigerian city of Jos, officials said, in an area hit by repeated ethnic clashes. The gunmen went house to house killing residents in Yelwa Zangam late on Tuesday, a military spokesman said….
LAGOS AUGUST 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria and Russia have signed a military cooperation deal providing a legal framework for the supply of equipment and the training of troops, the Nigerian embassy in Moscow said on Wednesday. President Muhammadu Buhari had expressed interest in such a pact with Russia as far back as 2019, when he met with…
LAGOS AUGUST 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen wearing army uniform, in the early hours of Tuesday, invaded the country’s foremost military institution, the Nigerian Defence Academy, Afaka, Kaduna, killing two officers and abducting one. The PUNCH gathered that when the gunmen entered the NDA permanent site along Airport Road, Afaka, in the Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna…
LAGOS AUGUST 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 elections, Mr Peter Obi, has urged the bishops, and by extension the leaders of the Church, not to relent or be discouraged in constantly speaking out against the societal ills in the nation which, he said, are getting worse…
LAGOS AUGUST 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Deputy National Chairman (South) of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Elder Yemi Akinwonmi, has assumed leadership of the party following a court injunction that barred Prince Uche Secondus from parading himself as the party’s National Chairman. Akinwonmi, in a statement after assuming office on Tuesday, postponed the National Working Committee (NWC)…
LAGOS AUGUST 25TH (NEWSRANGERS) – Hissene Habre, the former strongman president of Chad and security ally of the West during the Cold War who was later jailed for war crimes, died on Tuesday in Senegal at the age of 79, Senegal’s justice minister said. Habre contracted COVID-19 at a clinic in the capital Dakar where…
LAGOS AUGUST 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The military officer Major Christopher Datong abducted today at Nigerian Defence Academy, Afaka in Kaduna has been murdered. According to reports, his body was found on Tuesday evening, hours after he was captured by bandits. The abductors reportedly demanded N200 million to set him free. Datong who was from Pankshin in Plateau…
