LAGOS SEPTEMBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Lionel Messi and Erling Haaland are among the leading contenders to win this year’s men’s Ballon d’Or, while Spain World Cup star Aitana Bonmati leads the nominees announced on Wednesday for the women’s prize. Messi, who recently left Paris Saint-Germain for Inter Miami, is in with a chance of succeeding Karim Benzema…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Kehinde Akinyemi, spokesperson to the former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, has reacted to claim in a viral video that the former Nigerian President is dead. According to Dubawa, a WhatsApp video suggesting Obasanjo was dead went viral on Tuesday, September 5, 2023. The fact-checking platform said the video was captioned in French –…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Social media users have started reacting to trending video photos and video clips of some prominent Nigerians and lawyers who were captured on TV sleeping during the proceedings of the presidential election petitions Tribunal Wednesday. Those seen dozing off some hours into the court session include the former Kano governor and national…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Labour Party has rejected the judgment of the Presidential Election Petition Court upholding the declaration of Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, APC, as winner of the February 25, 2023 election. National Publicity Secretary of the party, Obiora Ifoh, made the party’s position known in Abuja, shortly after the court…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Presidential Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja has dismissed the petition alleging that the requirement for presidential candidates to be declared winners of the election is that they must secure 25% of the votes cast in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). POLITICS NIGERIA reports that the tribunal chairman, Justice Haruna Simon…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has approved an increase in the prices of prepaid electricity meters. NERC made the announcement on Tuesday in a circular marked NERC/2023/020, and jointly signed by Sanusi Garba, the commission’s chairman and Dafe Akpeneye, its commissioner, legal, licencing, and compliance. The commission said a single-phase meter…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Seven people were killed while several others were wounded when terrorists attacked Doka community of Sabuwa Local Government of Katsina State on Tuesday. A source said about 12 residents of the community were abducted while cattle and other domestic animals were rustled. Those killed include six men and a woman while those…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Motorists are braced for higher pump prices after the cost of oil climbed above $90 a barrel for the first time this year as Russia and Saudi Arabia extended cuts to supplies. Oil jumped to its highest price since last November, after the two oil-rich nations said they would prolong a plan…
