LAGOS AUGUST 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An anonymous user on the Argentinian website Mercado Libre has put up for sale the handkerchief that they claim Leo Messi used during his farewell speech at Barcelona. The piece is priced at $1m, with free delivery across Argentina. In the description of the product, it is specified that the handkerchief contains…
LAGOS AUGUST 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An unspecified number of passengers are feared dead as a vehicle skidded off the road and plunged into an excavation pit in Ebonyi on Saturday. The pit is about 32 feet deep. The accident, which occurred around 1:30pm, happened along Abakaliki-Ikwo expressway at Enyigba-Izzi community in Abakaliki Local Government Area. Officers from…
LAGOS AUGUST 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Political Analyst and Executive Director of Development Specs Academy, Dr Okey Okechukwu, has described former Governor of Anambra State and 2019 Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr Peter Obi, as one who performed exceptionally well and set new records of excellence in public office. Speaking on ARISE…
LAGOS AUGUST 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Bordeaux striker Samuel Kalu collapsed on the pitch in a French Ligue 1 game at Marseille on Sunday where temperatures hit a sweltering 30 degrees. The 23-year-old Nigerian international fainted and slumped to the Stade Velodrome surface in the early stages of the match. Worried teammates gathered around the stricken Kalu and…
Zambia’s veteran opposition leader, Hakainde Hichilema has won the southern African country’s presidency after taking more than 50% of the vote. Hichilema was declared president–elect by Esau Chulu, Chairman of the Electoral Commission of Zambia, early Monday after results for 155 of the country’s 156 constituencies were announced. Hichilema, a 59-year old businessman contesting the…
LAGOS AUGUST 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The spokesman for the Taliban’s political office on Sunday declared the war was over in Afghanistan and called for peaceful relations with the international community. Spokesman Mohammad Naeem said in interviews with Al Jazeera TV the Taliban did not want to live in isolation and the type of rule and the form…
LAGOS AUGUST 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Islamic police force in Kano, a Muslim-majority state in Nigeria, has raised eyebrows after it ordered shops to only use headless mannequins to advertise clothing. “Islam frowns on idolatry,” Haruna Ibn-Sina, the commander of the Sharia police known as the hisbah, told the BBC. “With the head on it looks like…
LAGOS AUGUST 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As Taliban fighters moved Sunday into Afghanistan’s capital city, the nation’s leader fled. President Ashraf Ghani flew from Kabul to an unknown destination. At least one news report said he traveled to Uzbekistan. Later Sunday, Ghani posted an explanation for his exit, saying if he stayed, more Afghans would die and “bloodshed”…
