LAGOS FEBRUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than six persons have been kidnapped by suspected terrorists during an invasion of the residence of the Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Universities at the Federal University of Gusau (FUGUS), Abdurrahman Adamu. The gunmen launched an attack on the ASUU chairman’s home in Damba Quarters, an outskirt of…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A young Nigerian have launched a new social media app known as ‘ShapClick’. ShapClick, a social media messaging app, developed by a Nigerian developer, is set to take over Facebook, Twitter and others. According to Mr Hyacinth Chinweuba, the app developer’s spokesperson, the social media app which was launched on the 22nd…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-West African leaders hold a key summit on Thursday as a wave of coups buffet a region struggling with poverty and a long history of turbulence. Emergency talks in the Ghanaian capital Accra were triggered after Burkina Faso on January 24 became the third member of the 15-nation Economic Community of West…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria has approached Standard Chartered Bank for funding of two rail projects, its Transport Minister Rotimi Amaechi said on Wednesday, after delays from Chinese lenders. President Muhammadu Buhari has made upgrading transport networks and improving outdated power grids the pillar of his administration, with a view to boosting agriculture and other non-oil…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Egypt coach Carlos Queiroz hit out at Cameroon legend Samuel Eto’o for sending a “very bad message” after likening Thursday’s Africa Cup of Nations semi-final between the sides to a “war”. Eto’o, who is now president of Cameroon’s Football Federation, made the comment to his team in a video widely published on…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-It’s 2 p.m. and Hannah Mgbede asks her husband if she can take her first break of the day from threshing rice so she can breastfeed their 18-month-old baby girl fastened to her back during the grueling work. Her husband Ibrahim Mohammed, 45, used to harvest as many as 10 bags of…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Egypt has filed a complaint with the African soccer confederation against the appointment of a Gambian referee for the Pharaohs’ game against Cameroon in the African Cup of Nations semifinals on Thursday. The Egyptian Football Association did not give reasons for its complaint against Bakary Gassama, one of Africa’s best-known referees. He…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Heavy gunfire has been heard in the capital of Guinea-Bissau near the seat of the government, with President Umaro Sissoco Embalo calling it a “failed attack against democracy” in the West African country. Armed men surrounded the government palace on Tuesday, where President Embalo and Prime Minister Nuno Gomes Nabiam were believed…
