LAGOS FEBRUARY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-PSG and Brazil forward Neymar has been the victim of an online bank robbery, with around €37,000 being illegally removed from his accounts. The total amount (€37,000) was removed from Neymar’s accounts in smaller sums and the PSG star was not the only victim of the scam. Spread the love PSG and…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 14TH (NEWRANGERS)-Israel Adesanya has defeated Robert Whittaker via unanimous decision at #UFC271 to retain the middleweight crown. Whittaker came into the challenge to regain the middleweight championship he lost to Adesanya in 2019. But he came up short as Adesanya retained the title via unanimous decision in the highly competitive fight. Adesanya’s jabs…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Chelsea won the Club World Cup for the first time in their history, as Kai Havertz scored a 117th minute penalty kick to edge the Blues past Palmeiras. The trophy is Chelsea’s 21st under owner Roman Abramovich and the Club World Cup was the only major trophy they had failed to win….
LAGOS FEBRUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria has moved up four places in the latest FIFA ranking after an early exit in the just concluded African Cup of Nations (AFCON) 2021. Nigeria is currently ranked 32 in the FIFA ranking ahead of AFCON 2021 host Cameroon, finalist Egypt, and Tunisia who defeated the Super Eagles in the round…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 8TH (NEWRANGERS)-Mohamed Salah’s Egypt are hoping to avenge their Africa Cup of Nations final defeat at the hands of Senegal when the countries meet again in a decisive two-legged World Cup play-off next month. The Pharaohs fell short of winning a record-extending eighth continental crown as they went down 4-2 in the shoot-out…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Senegal’s President Macky Sall declared Monday a public holiday to celebrate the national football team’s first ever African Cup of Nations crown following their victory against Egypt, public television announced. Sall, who had been due to visit Comoros at the end of a trip that took in Egypt and Ethiopia, cancelled the…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Lionel Messi and Kylian Mbappe both scored as Paris Saint-Germain stretched their mammoth lead at the top of Ligue 1 to 13 points with a 5-1 thrashing of defending champions Lille on Sunday. Mauricio Pochettino’s men were given a helping hand by a nightmarish display from Lille goalkeeper Ivo Grbic at the…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Sadio Mané finally delivered a first African Cup for Senegal, and Liverpool teammate Mohamed Salah could do nothing about it but stand and watch. Mané drilled the decisive penalty in a shootout into the bottom left corner to beat Salah and Egypt in Sunday’s final in Cameroon and make up for missing…