http://ift.tt/2wM8LC3 LAGOS SEPTEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Neymar was named alongside Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi on the three-man shortlist for the Best FIFA Men’s Player Award, which was announced in London on Friday. Brazil superstar Neymar, 25, won the Copa del Rey with Barcelona last season before joining Paris Saint-Germain in a blockbuster 222 million euros ($266…
http://ift.tt/2xtshqJ Buhari LAGOS SEPTEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, says President Muhammadu Buhari will spend only four days in London after which he will return to Nigeria. Adesina, however, did not state the reason for Buhari’s visit. Responding to an inquiry via a text message, the…
http://ift.tt/2jS3fwS LAGOS SEPTEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Unidentified gunmen on Thursday invaded the Tsafe Command of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), in Zamfara, killing an official, a witness said. The source said the hoodlums numbering over 20 stormed the premises of the command on motorcycles at about 10 a.m. and opened fire on the FRSC personnel. “There…
http://ift.tt/2fmCsXK LAGOS SEPTEMBER 22ND(NEWSRANGERS)-Several residents of Owerri the Imo State capital have been displaced after a downpour that lasted over 12 hours and has left the city flooded. Affected victims who placed sos calls to our correspondent in Imo State, say the areas mostly affected where properties worth millions have been damaged include the Federal…
http://ift.tt/2hl8iF9 LAGOS SEPTEMBER 22ND(NEWSRANGERS)-The Director General, Plateau State Peace Building Agency, Joseph Lengman has said modest estimate puts the figure of those killed in crises in Jos in a little more than the last 10 years as slightly above 7,000. Lengman said in his opening remark at the 2017 conference of the Christian Council of…
http://ift.tt/2hmS1M8 Amodu Sheriff LAGOS SEPTEMBR 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, National chairman, Ali Modu Sheriff, on Thursday visited Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo at the Aso Rock Presidential Villa, Abuja. Sheriff, a former Governor of Borno State, arrived at Osinbajo’s office at about 3.30pm and went straight into a closed-door meeting with the Vice President, moments…
http://ift.tt/2xViH1r LAGOS SEPTEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-L’Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt, the world’s richest woman whose old age was clouded by dementia, has died at the age of 94, her family said Thursday. “Liliane Bettencourt died last night at home,” her daughter Francoise Bettencourt Meyers said in a statement. Bettencourt, the cosmetics giant’s principal shareholder, was the 14th…
http://ift.tt/2hmPLo8 LAGOS SEPTEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The nation’s currency, the Naira has depreciated marginally against the dollar at the parallel market, exchanging at N365.5 to the green back at the end of trading on Thursday. This is because the Naira lost 50 kobo from N365 posted on Wednesday, while the Pound Sterling and the Euro closed at…