LAGOS JUNE 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The anxious wait for the 2018 FIFA World Cup is finally over as the tournament kicks off today at the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, Russia. The 32 teams for the competition have all arrived and the first match of this year’s most-anticipated tournament kicks off at 4pm (Nigerian time) between hosts Russia…
LAGOS JUNE 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Barring any last-minute change, the All Progressives Congress (APC) might shift its National Convention slated for June 23 by one week. A top member of the party’s National Convention Committee confirmed the development to New Telegraph yesterday. If this happens, it would be the second time the party has shifted its elective…
LAGOS JUNE 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two Nigerian University girls who were target of two rapists on Tuesday overpowered the two India men who wanted to rape them and handed them over to local police. India Times reports that seeing two women walking by themselves along a dimly-lit stretch at in Vandalur, Chennai, on Tuesday night, two men…
LAGOS JUNE 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi, has advised Nigerians, especially the priests of God, to continue talking about all aspects of governance in the country. He warned that the danger in keeping quiet is that those in authority might be sufficiently shielded by their aides from knowing the true position…
LAGOS JUNE 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Chicago-based Nigerian pharmacist, Olasunkanmi Esho, has allegedly killed his Cameroonian wife, Bourk Esho, and their eight-year-old daughter, Olivia. Olasunkanmi, 42, who lived in Ilinois, Chicago, in the United States of America, was alleged to have also shot himself dead after the incident. It is not clear if the couple had any…
LAGOS JUNE 14TH (NEWRANGERS)-The Police Service Commission (PSC) has approved the promotion of 3,665 senior police officers. The commission’s Head, Press and Public Relations, Mr Ikechukwu Ani, said this in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja. He said that approval for the promotion was one of the high points of the commission’s 28th Plenary Meeting…
efcc LAGOS JUNE 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An Abuja businessman, Mr Abdulhamid Zari, has alleged that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission operatives extorted N4m from him to release his passport. The passport, he claimed, was seized on the directive of the Head, Economic Governance in the Commission, Abubakar Madaki. Zari, who made the accusation while addressing journalists…
LAGOS JUNE 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Photos of a Nigerian woman who lives in Texas has been circulating online as the woman who jumped into the lagoon beneath Third Mainland Bridge on Sunday. The woman, named Toyin, has now refuted the rumors by sharing recent photos of herself via her Instagram account. She captioned the photo: “Am alive,…