LAGOS JULY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Sergio Ramos, the former Real Madrid stalwart considered one of the best defenders in the world, has signed a two-year contract with Paris Saint-Germain, the French club said Thursday. Ramos, 35, won the Champions League four times with Real and is a World Cup winner and a two-time champion of Europe with…
LAGOS JULY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-“On July 5th, 150 students were reportedly abducted from a school in Nigeria’s Kaduna State, marking the latest incident in an alarming spate of attacks against children and abductions, including of students, in parts of West and Central Africa. We are deeply concerned that as in years past, non-state armed groups and…
LAGOS JULY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Coalition of Northern Groups on Tuesday responded to the issues raised by the Southern Governors Forum during their Monday meeting in Lagos. The coalition accused the southern governors of shielding “felons, arsonists and mass atrocity perpetrators in their midst by challenging the prerogative of the Federal Government to enforce law and…
LAGOS JULY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An FCT High Court, sitting in Kubwa, Abuja on Tuesday ordered a 21- year-old student, Abraham Umuibe to sweep Mpape Government Secondary School for 90 days. Umuibe swindled a Chinese woman of N113, 000, online. Justice Kezziah Ogbonnaya said the court gave the unusual sentence because it has been enjoined to give…
LAGOS JULY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Akash Kumar was excited when he boarded his first ship as a seafarer, a bulk carrier called the Ula. “That time it was a good feeling … a dream come true. I joined this merchant navy because I love to explore other places, other countries,” he says. The 25-year-old Indian seafarer was…
LAGOS JULY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-All 96 passengers on board a Philippines Air Force transport plane that crashed on Sunday killing at least 50 people – on the plane and on the ground – have been accounted for, military chief Cirilito Sobejana said on Monday. Sobejana said 49 soldiers were injured in the fiery crash, which happened…
LAGOS JULY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Jacob Zuma, former South African president, turned himself in to police on Wednesday to begin 15 months in jail for contempt of court, the culmination of a long legal drama seen as a test of the country’s ability to enforce the rule of law. Police spokesperson Lirandzu Themba confirmed in a statement…
LAGOS JULY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A squad of gunmen assassinated Haitian President Jovenel Moïse and wounded his wife in an overnight raid on their home Wednesday, with police killing four suspects and arresting two others hours later amid growing chaos in a country already enduring gang violence and protests of his increasingly authoritarian rule. Three police officers…
