LAGOS JULY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Idiroko is a town in Ipokia Local Government Area of Ogun State located on Nigeria’s border with the Republic of Benin. It has been an official border crossing point in the past six decades. Due to the location of an official cross-border post and as a result of cross-border trading activities within…
LAGOS JULY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Pope Francis has undergone successful surgery to treat a colon problem at a hospital in Rome, the Vatican says. The 84-year-old “responded well” to the treatment, which was performed under general anaesthesia, Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said. It is the first time Pope Francis has been admitted to hospital since his election…
LAGOS JULY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Ilana Omo Oodua has said it is assembling senior Yoruba lawyers to ensure the release of aides of Chief Sunday Adeyemo, aka Sunday Igboho, arrested during the raid by the Department of State Services on the activist’s house. Igboho, who is a promoter of the Yoruba Nation, has gone underground following…
LAGOS JULY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nemesis has caught up with no fewer than 15 armed bandits in Niger state as the boat conveying them capsized midway into the about three hour journey at river Shiroro in Shiroro local government area of the state. The mishap occurred on Wednesday last week when the bandits were said to be…
LAGOS JULY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Denmark’s Andreas Christensen believes his side’s Premier League players have what it takes to stop England striker Harry Kane and silence Wembley Stadium when they meet in their Euro 2020 semi-final on Wednesday. The 25-year-old defender’s club side Chelsea have a good record against the England No. 9 and Denmark may also…
LAGOS JULY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen in Nigeria have kidnapped at least 140 schoolchildren in the north-west of the country, police say. At least eight people were also abducted from the National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Centre in Zaria early on Sunday morning. Two nurses and a 12-month-old child were among those seized, said a hospital worker. There…
LAGOS JULY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Interpol issued an international arrest warrant Monday for Karim Keita, a son of Mali’s former president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, over the 2016 disappearance of an investigative journalist, legal sources said. The red notice for Keita, himself a former influential lawmaker, was issued at the request of an investigating magistrate in the Malian…
LAGOS JULY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As the crisis in Idumuje Ugboko continues to eat deeper into the trust, relationships and brotherhood of the agrarian community ,more facts are beginning to come up with respect to some of the cooked up tales trending in the social media. Anioma Voice as the online umbrella body of the people of Anioma…
