LAGOS MARCH 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Liverpool has progressed through to the Champions League semi-finals with a 2-1 win over Manchester City in Tuesday’s clash at the Etihad Stadium. Gabriel Jesus cut Liverpool’s 3-0 advantage from the first leg within two minutes, but second-half goals from Mohamed Salah and Roberto Firmino ensured that the Merseyside giants progressed 5-1…
LAGOS APRIL 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, has said that his principal never pledged only one-term. Buhari, 75, had on Monday shortly before he left for London, declared his intention to run for presidential election in 2019. Adesina, speaking on Channels Television on Tuesday, said the…
LAGOS APRIL 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday, approved the appointment of chief executive officers of agencies in the Federal Ministries. The Ministries include: Health, Information and Culture, Education, Power, Works, and Housing, and Resident Electoral Commissioners in the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. President Buhari mandated the new appointees to “reinvigorate the agencies in…
LAGOS APRIL 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Political leaders from the U.K. and abroad will not be attending Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s upcoming wedding ceremony, Kensington Palace announced today. The announcement puts to rest speculation that President Donald Trump could be among the 600 guests at Markle and Harry’s May 19 wedding at St. George’s Chapel at Windsor…
LAGOS APRIL10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Barely three days after the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) North-West zonal rally in Katsina, some hoodlums suspected to be “thugs of the ruling APC” stormed the presidential campaign office of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar in Katsina and destroyed property worth millions of naira. The suspected APC thugs destroyed no fewer than eight…
LAGOS APRIL 10TH (NEWRANGERS)-A clash between suspected members of rival cult groups has claimed no fewer than six persons including an Inspector of Nigeria Police. Two persons were gunned down on Sunday while four others, including a bricklayer and the police officer were killed on Monday. The gun battle which began about 5:30p.m on Sunday…
LAGOS APRIL 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An investigation has been launched after 27 people, most of them children, died when a school bus fell into a gorge in a mountainous region of India. Most of the passengers were below the age of 10, police said. The bus driver and two teachers were also killed in the accident on…
LAGOS APRIL 10TH (NESRANGERS)-Royal Dutch Shell Plc has said it paid $4.32 billion to the Nigerian Government in 2017, representing an increase of 19 per cent from the $3.64 billion the oil giant paid in 2016. The Shell’s Sustainability Report 2017, which was released yesterday, showed that the $4.32 billion paid to Nigeria was the…
