By Ademola Mobi LAGOS JUNE 20TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-Sometime in 2009, ‘Mr’(as he preferred to be addressed) Peter Obi, Governor Of Anambra State at the time, visited Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu and myself at Dallas, Texas. He came to deliver a get well message from the President, Dr Goodluck Jonathan and was billed to attend a…
LAGOS JUNE 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The majority of Nigerian filling stations have yet to reduce premium motor spirit pump prices despite the significant drop in crude oil prices and Dangote Refinery’s gantry petrol price. A market survey on Thursday morning showed that petrol prices stood between N1317 and N1336 per liter across filling stations in Abuja. This is the…
LAGOS JUNE 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Family, friends and colleagues are mourning the sudden death of 26-year-old lawyer Sarah Araba Tettey, who reportedly suffered a cardiac arrest while celebrating Ghana’s victory over Panama on Wednesday. Tettey, an alumna of the Faculty of Law at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), was called to the…
LAGOS JUNE 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A man in northern Nigeria has been sentenced to two weeks in prison after neighbours complained that he was storing bags of human faeces outside his home, which they said made life unbearable. Mohammed Saidu was taken to court in the city of Kano after residents reported the foul smell to environmental…
LAGOS JUNE 19TH (NEWRANGERS)-Equatorial Guinea’s government has resigned after failing to meet its objectives, Vice-President Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue said. Obiang, who is also the son of President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, said the prime minister had presented the resignation of all members of the government because it had barely reached 10% of its targets….
LAGOS JUNE 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At BC Place in Vancouver on Thursday, Canada rolled to a 6-0 win over Qatar, securing its first-ever victory at a World Cup. But 22 minutes into the game, the rowdy, pro-Canada crowd suddenly erupted into boos. Those in the know knew exactly why the Canadian fans were booing, and it had…
LAGOS JUNE 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, has been cleared of all bribery charges brought against her by British prosecutors after a jury at a London court returned not-guilty verdicts on Wednesday. Mrs Alison-Madueke, who served as Nigeria’s petroleum minister between 2010 and 2015 under former President Goodluck Jonathan, was acquitted…
LAGOS JUNE 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Victor Osimhen has spoken publicly for the first time about Nigeria’s failure to qualify for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, admitting that the disappointment has been difficult for both him and his Super Eagles teammates. The expanded 2026 tournament, which features 48 teams for the first time in history, got underway…