LAGOS MARCH 28TH (NESRANGERS)-Serbia striker Aleksandar Mitrovic scored a second-half double to earn a 2-0 World Cup warm-up win over Nigeria in a lively encounter in London on Tuesday. It was a much improved performance by the Serbians after Friday’s 2-1 defeat by Morocco, while Nigeria put in a turgid display following a 1-0 win…
LAGOS MARCH 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Edgal made the announcement at a news conference in Lagos to update the public on security plans for the President’s visit. He said that President Buhari would be in Lagos on a two-day official visit on Thursday, March 29 and Friday, March 30. The police commissioner said that President Buhari would be…
LAGOS MARCH 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-China raised eyebrows this month by announcing it will give the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) a $31.6 million grant to build a new headquarters in Abuja, Nigeria. Accepting the grant, the president of ECOWAS, Jean-Claude Brou, thanked China and confirmed the organization’s commitment to promoting future ECOWAS-China cooperation. A…
LAGOS MARCH 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The All Progressives Congress (APC) has disowned President Muhammadu Buhari over his call for the annulment of Chief John Oyegun’s tenure extension as National Chairman of the party. President Buhari, it would be recalled, had advised the ruling APC to nullify the extension of tenure for the National Working Committee (NWC) of…
LAGOS MARCH 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Despite being asked, Mark Zuckerberg won’t attend a British parliamentary hearing about Cambridge Analytica’s data use. In a statement to Damian Collins, chair of Digital Culture Media and Sport Committee, Facebook’s head of public policy for the UK Rebecca Stimson outlined all the ways Facebook would change its course of action (like…
LAGOS MARCH 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There are indicators that the forthcoming Easter celebration by federal and state civil servants may be bleak following a fresh scam uncovered in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) subsidy payment. A civil rights organisation, Coalition for Probity and Integrity in Civil Service (CPICS), revealed that the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee (FAAC),…
LAGOS MARCH 27T (NEWSRANGERS)-The graduate son of a Nigerian politician was shot dead near his family’s London home in the latest round of bloodshed in the capital. Abraham Badru, 26, who was given a police bravery award as a teenager for saving a woman from a sex attack, was gunned down in the street in…
LAGOS MARCH 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Three persons lost their lives in a multiple auto crash that occurred along the ever-busy Benin – Ore expressway on Tuesday morning. While a female and two male passengers died in the accidents, 10 other persons sustained serious injuries in the crash involving a bus on the fleet of God is Good…
