LAGOS AUGUST 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The wife and two daughters of a Kogi-based journalist, Muhammed Bashir, were among the ten members of the same family kidnapped on Thursday in Kaduna State. Bashir’s wife and his two daughters arrived in Kaduna earlier on Thursday for a holiday with her (the wife’s) family in a suburb of Kaduna. Bashir,…
LAGOS AUGUST 10TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-Days after hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets across Nigeria to protest against inflation and other economic hardships, clothing seller Michael Nwankwo is still counting the cost of the business he lost. At least 22 people died, according to Amnesty International, in the demonstrations that started on Thursday last…
LAGOS AUGUST 10TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-Sam Watson leaves the Paris Games with another world record in speed sport climbing but without the Olympic gold medal. The American broke the speed world record on Thursday for the second time at the 2024 Paris Olympics, but the feat came in the fight for the bronze after he was eliminated…
LAGOS AUGUS10TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-A passenger plane crashed into a gated residential community in Brazil’s Sao Paulo state Friday, killing all 61 people aboard and leaving a smoldering wreck, officials and the airline said. Officials did not say if anyone was killed on the ground in the neighborhood where the plane landed in the city of Vinhedo,…
LAGOS AUGUST 9TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-Tobi Amusan, women’s 100m hurdles world record holder and Nigeria’s gold medal hope at the ongoing Paris 2024 Olympics, has missed out on qualifying for the final. In a semi-final race that was held on Friday, Amusan returned a time of 12.55 seconds to finish third behind Grace Stark of the United…
LAGOS AUGUST 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Investors are literally scrambling for shares of Fidelity Bank Plc as the leading commercial bank’s capital raising continues to gather momentum among all categories of investors. Investors’ appetite for Fidelity Bank is shown in massive subscriptions to its ongoing rights and public offers and voluminous trading at the stock market. Current weekly…
LAGOS AUGUST 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Take It Back Movement, one of the key organizers of the EndBadGovernance nationwide protest, has scheduled Saturday for a one-million-man protest in all the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory, FCT Abuja. Mr Sanyaolu Juwon, National Coordinator of the movement, stated this in a statement on Thursday in Abuja. He said,…
LAGOS AUGUST 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former president of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), Issa Hayatou, has passed away at the age of 77. The football administrator, who was a key figure in African football for decades, died in Paris on Thursday, August 8, 2024, a day before his 78th birthday. He was a former 400m and…
