LAGOS FEBRUARY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Britain’s Tyson Fury became world heavyweight champion for the second time after stopping Deontay Wilder in a thrilling bout in Las Vegas this morning of Sunday, February 23, 2020. Fury knocked his opponent down in the third and fifth rounds before Wilder’s corner threw in the towel in the seventh. The Briton…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Ex-Anambra State Governor, Peter Obi, has decried the high cost of governance in the country, saying it is “madness” for political office holders to move in large convoys. Obi, who was the running mate of the Peoples Democratic Party’s candidate, Atiku Abubakar, in the 2019 presidential poll, said he had used a…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Fresh revelations have emerged on how Boko Haram insurgents attacked Garkida town in Gombi Local Government Area of Adamawa State for six hours on Friday night. The town is located on the Gombi-Biu – Damaturu Road, which shares proximity with Southern Borno and Sambisa Forest. Reports say police barracks, churches and a…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The European Union is planning to tighten procedures for Nigerians to get a Schengen visa in response to the country failing to take back Nigerians staying illegally in Europe. The EU Spokesperson for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Virginie Battu-Henriksson, said, “What the EU can do since new rules on short-stay visas…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A Kaduna State High Court has discharged and acquitted 91 members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN). The presiding judge, Justice Hajaratu Gwada, acquitted the defendants of the charges filed against them by the state government in her judgement delivered on Friday. The freed members of the Shiite group were arrested…
By Amos Okioma LAGOS FEBRUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal High Court sitting in Yenagoa presided over by HON. JUSTICE A. O AWOGBORO, has issued warrant of arrest on UBA PLC and four (4) members of it’s staff for failing to appear in court even after they were served charge NO:FHC|YNG|10c|2019 by substituted means. It would be…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Pastor Richard Ifeanyi Obi who was on a mission to conduct deliverance for a family was found dead in his hotel room at No. 5 Onuorah Street, Amaenyi Awka, Anambra State. The deceased was said to be in the town from Warri, Delta state to conduct prayers for a family when the…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-There was panic at Alaiyiama, Obollo community, in the Isiala Mbano Local Government Area of Imo State, following the beheading of a 68-year-old woman, Mrs Augustina Inebere. This is even as the police arrested the Pastor-in-Charge of Arm of the Lord Church, Goddy Onyeho, for allegedly giving what the police called a…
