LAGOS MAY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Chelsea found a way to stop Mohamed Salah – smother him both on and off the pitch. His former Roma team-mate Antonio Rudiger was all hugs before kick-off, and then did not give the Liverpool forward an inch of space in 90 minutes as ¬Chelsea gained the precious win that suddenly gives…
LAGOS MAY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Pep Guardiola has confirmed long-serving midfielder Yaya Toure will leave Manchester City next month after eight successful seasons with the Premier League champions. The Ivory Coast international turns 35 on the last day of the current campaign and has been a key part of City’s rise to prominence under their wealthy Abu…
LAGOS MAY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Real Madrid forwarder, Cristiano Ronaldo, has reportedly engaged his girlfriend, Georgina Rodriguez, with a Cartier diamond ring worth N300m. Rodriguez new ring comes just months after she gave birth to her first child, Alana Martina with Ronaldo. The Sun UK reported that fuelled speculations that the pair are engaged emerged after she…
LAGOS MAY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Kelechi Iheanacho and Shehu Abdullahi have congratulated Wilfred Ndidi for winning Leicester City’s Young Player of the Year award for the 2017-18 season. The 21-year-old clinched the accolade for the second time since his arrival at the King Power Stadium from Genk in January 2017. Ndidi has been a consistent performer at…
LAGOS APRIL 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos State Government has pledged to support this year’s Cycling Lagos event scheduled to hold on August 25, 2018. Speaking at a World Press Conference to unveil programmes for the international cycling event (www.cyclinglagos.com) that promised to be one of the biggest sports, tourism and entertainment events in Nigeria and the…
LAGOS APRIL 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-World football governing body, FIFA, at the weekend warned that it would not consult with any of the parties battling for the leadership of the Nigeria Football Federation before throwing the country out of the game if it found that a third party has been meddling in the nation’s football affairs. The…
LAGOS APRIL 20TH (NEWSRAGERS)-Wenger, 68, announced on Friday that he will be leaving the Gunners at the end of the current 2017/18 campaign despite having one year remaining on his contract. Here is the statement from Wenger in full which was posted on Arsenal’s website with the heading “Merci Arsene” taking center stage. “After careful…
LAGOS APRIL 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Argentina coach, Jorge Sampaoli, has penciled down a 34-man list ahead of FIFA’s deadline for lists submission ahead of the Russia 2018 World Cup. Mauro Icardi’s name was however conspicuously missing on the list. The coach listed Sergio Romero, Franco Armani, Wilfredo Caballero, Nahuel Guzman, Agustín Marchesin, Fabricio Bustos, Gabriel Mercado, Nicolás…