LAGOS JUNE 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Croatia sent one of its players home Monday after he refused to take the pitch during the team’s opening World Cup match. Head coach Zlatko Dalić confirmed forward Nikola Kalinić was sent packing from the team’s base camp in Roshchino, Russia. The drastic move comes after Kalinić apparently cited a back injury…
LAGOS JUNE 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Thirty Nine- Years- old All Progressive Congress(APC) Presidential candidate, Barr. Christmas Akpodiete has appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to step down for him in the coming 2019 presidential election. Akpodiete who officially declared his intention to contest the 2019 Presidential election under the platform of APC made this known yesterday while addressing…
LAGOS JUNE 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The death toll from the multiple suicide bomb attacks by suspected Islamist Boko Haram militants on the town of Damboa in Borno State Saturday night has increased to 43. The attack was targeted at people returning from celebrating the Eid-el-Fitr holiday. It would be recalled that 32 people were killed, leaving 84…
LAGOS JUNE 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, has affirmed that nobody can intimidate him, stressing that that the God that removed military dictator, General Sani Abacha from powe will also remove President Muhammadu Buhari from office. He said this yesterday at a town hall meeting in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, where the Coalition for…
LAGOS JUNE 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-World Cup hosts Russia face an Egypt side buoyed by the likely return of star man Mohamed Salah on Tuesday knowing a win will all but guarantee a place in the last 16. Liverpool wizard Salah missed his team’s defeat to Uruguay on Friday as he struggles to recover from the shoulder…
LAGOS JUNE 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 47-year-old Nigerian-Canadian man, Olajide Ogunye, is reportedly suing the Canadian government following his arrest and detention by border agents, despite providing proof of his citizenship. According to The Guardian, Ogunye is suing the Canadian government to the tune of $10m in compensation, after he was held in detention for eight months….
LAGOS JUNE 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Leaders of Islamic State (IS) are sneaking battle-hardened extremists from Syria into Nigeria, UK Sun reported Monday, saying some of the fighters are reportedly sent to the Middle East for training in a “chilling exchange programme”. Muslim fundamentalists massed in the Boko Haram sect had held Nigeria by the jugular since 2009,…
LAGOS JUNE 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Oil fell near $64 a barrel as Saudi Arabia and Russia prepared for a clash with allied crude producers over whether to lift output and as China and the U.S. exchanged threats over trade. Futures in New York dropped as much as 2.3 percent, on course for the lowest close since April…
