LAGOS MAY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Former WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder was arrested early Tuesday morning in Los Angeles on a charge of possession of a concealed weapon, according to TMZ. The arrest reportedly came on a routine traffic stop in which Wilder was pulled over in Hollywood around 1:15 a.m. when officers allegedly noticed his Rolls-Royce…
LAGOS MAY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Real Madrid fell to a 2-0 defeat at Real Sociedad on Tuesday, leaving the champions 14 points behind La Liga leaders Barcelona with five games remaining. Former Madrid winger Takefusa Kubo and Ander Barrenetxea netted for the hosts, who tightened their grip on fourth spot and Champions League qualification. Madrid defender Dani…
LAGOS MAY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Paris Saint-Germain will suspend Lionel Messi for two weeks after the Argentine superstar skipped training to travel to Saudi Arabia, and won’t extend the Argentine superstar’s contract beyond this season, according to multiple reports Tuesday. The punishment, and Messi’s unauthorized trip to the Gulf one day after a dispiriting 3-1 loss to…
LAGOS MAY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Armed robbers have laid siege to the Mile 2-Badagry Expressway in Lagos State, robbing travellers brazenly daily. They target traders particularly in the morning and at night between Alakija and Volks Bus Stop. On Sunday, the hoodlums blocked the road around Volks and robbed passengers who were left to their fate. One…
LAGOS MAY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-To the obvious embarrassment of President Muhammadu Buhari, Nigerian workers on Monday celebrated Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi at the Eagle Square gathering of the May Day celebration. GWG.ng reports that President Buhari is being represented by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr Boss Mustapha. Among senior officials…
LAGOS MAY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-One of the buses conveying stranded Nigerians from Khartoum, Sudan, to Port Sudan caught fire in the early hours of Monday, The PUNCH learnt. 26 buses conveying the stranded Nigerians left Al Razi around 12 am on Monday for Port Sudan where they will move into Saudi Arabia. According to the Chairman, Nigerians…
LAGOS MAY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A 35-year-old mechanic, Akinola Olatunji, has landed in trouble after one of his colleagues allegedly bolted away with a vehicle belonging to a client and had remained incommunicado. The Point gathered that Olatunji, who operates at the popular Ajegunle motor spare parts market in Osogbo, capital of Osun State, was given a…
LAGOS MAY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s President-elect, Bola Tinubu, on Monday, promised to join forces with Nigerian workers to ensure better welfare and working conditions, vowing “workers will have more than a minimum wage.” He also urged support for his soon-to-begin administration in fighting poverty, ignorance, disease, disunity, ethnic and religious hate, which he described as “common”…
