LAGOS MARCH 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Amaju Pinnick, has missed out on a return to the FIFA Council Seat. Pinnick lost re-election at the extraordinary general assembly held in Cairo on Wednesday, with FIFA president Gianni Infantino in attendance. Africa has seven seats at the FIFA Council, with CAF President…
LAGOS MARCH 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Rivers State House of Assembly led by Speaker Martin Amaewhule, on Wednesday, shut official quarters of the assembly against Governor Siminalayi Fubara. Mr Fubara was at the complex along Aba Road, Port Harcourt, in company with the Secretary to the State Government, Tammy Danagogo, and the Chief of Staff, Edison Ehie, but…
LAGOS MARCH 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The landing cost of premium motor spirit dropped to N774.82 per litre, cheaper than the ex-depot price of Dangote Refinery’s fuel, which stood at N825 per litre. This is according to the latest competency centre daily energy data released by the Major Energies Marketers Association of Nigeria on Tuesday. Data from MEMAN…
LAGOS MARCH 12TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-The Federal High Court has dismissed reports that the newly assigned judge in the case of the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, has stepped down. The FHC, in a statement signed by the Chief Registrar, Sulaiman Hassan, on Tuesday described the report as “false and misleading.” A…
LAGOS MARCH 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos State Police Command on Tuesday confirmed the location where the Lagos State University graduate, Adedamola Ogunbode, was buried, following the arrest of the principal suspect, Olaoluwa Ajisomo. PUNCH Metro exclusively learnt that the prime suspect, rumoured to have fled to the Benin Republic, was leading police detectives in locating the…
LAGOS MARCH 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The former president of the Philippines is understood to be on a plane bound for The Hague after he was arrested by Interpol over the bloody “war on drugs” waged during his time in office. Rodrigo Duterte, 79, was taken into custody on Tuesday after he landed at Manila’s main airport on…
LAGOS MARCH 11TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-Angry youths in Naka, Benue State, on Tuesday, set fire to the palace of Ter Nagi, Chief Daniel Abomtse, and parts of the Gwer West Local Government Secretariat while protesting the killing of three people. The violence erupted after suspected armed herders reportedly killed three operatives of the Benue Civil Protection Guards…
LAGOS MARCH 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen have shot and macheted to death a politician, Oluwatosin Onamade, in the Ijede area of Ikorodu, Lagos State. PUNCH Metro gathered that Onamade, until his death, was an aspirant for the chairmanship position of Ijede Local Council Development Area under the banner of the All Progressives Congress. His distraught brother, Oluwafemi…
