LAGOS AUGUST 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Controller General of Nigeria Customs Service, Hameed Ali, has blamed the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) for the high rate of smuggling of fuel across Nigerian borders. He said he had on many occasions proposed to the NNPC to establish petroleum retail outlets in neighbouring countries to curtail smuggling of fuel…
LAGOS AUGUST 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Cristiano Ronaldo has been linked with rumored transfers to the likes of Real Madrid, Manchester City and PSG, but the 36-year-old Portuguese superstar has called those reports “disrespectful” and “just talk” in a rather peculiar statement posted on his Instagram account. With less than one full year remaining on his current contract…
LAGOS AUGUST 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Thirty-seven civilians were killed in a region of western Niger that has been battered by jihadist incursions from neighbouring Mali, local sources said Tuesday. “Armed men who arrived on motorbikes” attacked the village of Darey-Daye in the Tillaberi region on Monday afternoon as people were working in the fields, a local official…
LAGOS AUGUST 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The U.S. Air Force has confirmed that human remains were found inside the wheel well of a C-17 military plane that had been swarmed by hundreds of people on the tarmac as it took off at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul. The discovery was made upon landing at al Udeid Air…
LAGOS AUGUST 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-It is no longer news that the Islamist Movement and Military organization known as Taliban has taken control of key facilities and cities in Afghanistan after taking control of the country’s capital, Kabul. This recent development occured after the US government withdrew it’s military forces away from the country in honour of…
LAGOS AUGUST 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A number of stowaways appear to have fallen to a horrific death from an aircraft leaving Kabul. Footage showed countless people jumping aboard the outside of a US Air Force plane seemingly trying to take off from a runway in the Afghan capital. In one footage, as an Apache helicopter attempts to…
LAGOS AUGUST 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Zambian President Edgar Lungu conceded defeat on Monday after a landslide election win by opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema, marking the southern African country’s third peaceful handover of power to an opposition party. With all but one of 156 constituencies counted, Hichilema had won 2,810,777 votes against Lungu’s 1,814,201, and the electoral commission…
LAGOS AUGUST 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) during the 2019 elections, Mr. Peter Obi, has stated that no political leader in Nigeria deserves any award of excellence, considering the general failure of the nation in all fronts due to the mismanagement of national resources, selfishness, greed and wickedness of…
