LAGOS JANUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Tuesday urged wealthy countries not to hoard surplus COVID-19 vaccine supplies, adding his voice to calls for global production to be shared more equally. With Africa struggling to secure sufficient vaccines to start countrywide inoculation programmes for its 1.3 billion people, the head of the international…
LAGOS JANUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The first thing you should know about the shocking amount of debt Barcelona has been revealed to find itself in is that finances in soccer are complicated. The other thing is that it’s common for soccer’s mega-clubs to carry hundreds of millions of dollars in debt at any given time. Manchester United…
LAGOS JANUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has fired the heads of the country’s armed forces whom he appointed when he first took office in 2015. In a surprise move, he also tweeted the names of their replacements. No reason was given for the resignations of the army, navy, air force and chief of defence…
LAGOS JANUARY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Eagle-eyed operatives of a South-Western states formed security outfit, Amotekun have intercepted a truckload of persons of Fulani extraction who claimed to be herdsmen. Sources said the truck marked TUR 30 ZY Kebbi was intercepted by the security of Oyo State Command (Ido Unit) led by Gbenga Olarewaju . When the 25…
LAGOS JANUARY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-It was a surprise to other people as a whole DVC of Anchor University which belongs to the famous Bible-teaching church in Nigeria, Deeper Christian Life Ministry, spent three days in the hands of the abductors who captured him and requesting for some money. He said that on his way back home…
LAGOS JANUARY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Police in Nigeria are working to rescue seven children and a man who were abducted from an orphanage in the capital over the weekend. The children and a staff member of the Rachel’s Orphanage Home in the capital city, Abuja, were abducted Saturday by a large group of armed men who broke…
LAGOS JANUARY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Following the ambush of Bauchi State Auditor-General, Abdu Aliyu and his family by suspected kidnappers, his son, 25-years-old Zilkifiru Mohammed has returned home after escaping from the kidnappers’ den. Mohammed, who was kidnapped on Saturday evening alongside his father’s friend, Iliyasu Suleiman, along Bauchi-Tafawa Balewa highway after the Auditor-General was shot in…
LAGOS JANUARY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government has given approval to the National Agricultural and Land Development Agency (NALDA) to permanently employ some 30,000 agricultural and other science graduates to handle soil test and other responsibilities for the agency. The Executive Secretary of NALDA, Paul Ikonne, stated this Monday while briefing journalists on the activities of…
