LAGOS JULY 2ND (NEWSRNAGERS)-After beating Team Nigeria to top the medals table at the just-concluded 23rd African Senior Athletics Championships, in Douala, Cameroon, athletes and officials of Team South Africa shifted their focus to football with the Super Eagles as the topic of discussion. Before the trip to Douala, some officials of Team Nigeria had…
LAGOS JULY 2ND (NEWSRNAGERS)-A four-storey building attached to the Westbrook Hotel in the Garki area of the Federal Capital Territory collapsed on Monday night, trapping many people inside. The Westbrook Hotel is reportedly owned by a former governor from a state in the South East. An eyewitness, who requested anonymity, informed Punch about the incident,…
LAGOS JULY 2ND (NEWSRNAGERS)-Rear Admiral Alison Amaechina Madueke has petitioned the court for an injunction restraining his ex-wife, Diezani Alison-Madueke, from using his first name (Alison) and surname (Madueke) following the dissolution of their marriage. He prayed the court grants an order directing the respondent (Diezani) to adopt and revert to her pre-marital surname (Agama)…
LAGOS JULY 2ND (NEWSRNAGERS)-A chilling discovery has been made in Kakpayili, a suburb of Tamale in the Northern Region of Ghana, where the bodies of eight missing children have been found at the residence of a suspected ritualist. The man, whose identity has not been disclosed, is believed to have been involved in the kidnapping…
LAGOS JULY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Customs Service said its operatives intercepted nine containers carrying offensive items including arms, ammunition, Illicit drugs and second-hand clothes worth N13.9 billion. The Comptroller-General, NCS, Adewale Adeniyi disclosed this on Monday while addressing journalists in Onne Port, Rivers State. Adeniyi said one of the containers which originated from Turkey, based…
LAGOS JULY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Content creators in Nigeria can now earn money from ad revenue as Meta has made good its promise of making the country eligible for monetisation. Meta had promised in May this year that it would allow Facebook monetisation in Nigeria by June. It said, “Monetisation won’t be limited to just Instagram. Nigerian…
LAGOS JULY 2ND (NEWSRNAGERS)-A year and a few months after relief from the worst cash crunch in the modern economy, Nigeria appears to have slid into another dimension and created a new business from commoditising the national currency. As it was during the prolonged cash crunch that almost ruined the economy in the first quarter of last…
LAGOS JULY 2ND (NEWSRNAGERS)-The Labour Party (LP) Presidential Candidate, Mr Peter Obi, has reiterated his call for South-East Governors to collaborate, emphasizing that such unity is crucial for the region’s development. Obi made this statement over the weekend at Jesuit College in Port Harcourt while responding to a question seeking clarification on his previous day’s…
