LAGOS NOVEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Canada has detected its first cases of the new Omicron strain of Covid, in two people who had traveled recently to Nigeria, Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos said in a statement on Sunday. “I was informed today by the Public Health Agency of Canada that testing and monitoring of Covid-19 cases has confirmed two…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Chief Whip of the Senate, Orji Uzor Kalu, said he visited the leader of the proscribed Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, in the custody of the Department of State Services on Monday afternoon. Kalu, in a statement personally signed by him and made available to our correspondent in Abuja, said…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Paris Saint-Germain and Argentina forward Lionel Messi beat out Bayern Munich’s runner-up Robert Lewandowski and 28 other nominees for the 2021 men’s Ballon d’Or, which he received at a ceremony on Monday in Paris. The honor is awarded by France Football magazine to the male soccer player considered to be the best…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-China has denied reports it could take control of Uganda’s international airport should the government in Kampala default on a $200 million loan from Beijing. “The malicious allegation… has no factual basis and is ill intended to distort the good relations that China enjoys with developing countries including Uganda,” a spokesman for…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 29 (NEWSRANGERS)-The Publisher of Mega Splash Magazine, Alhaji Tunde Umar Daniah, is now the President of Maritime Journalists Association of Nigeria-MAJAN. AlhajiUmar was unanimously elected President of the Association in an election held on Friday the 26th of November, at Presken Hotel, Airport Road, Isolo, Lagos, following the expiration of Ray Ugochukwu tenure…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Anthony Joshua says he would consider stepping aside to let Oleksandr Usyk fight the unified heavyweight world champion, Tyson Fury. Joshua will fight Usyk for a second time next spring after losing his WBA, WBO, IBF and IBO belts on a unanimous points decision in front of a sell-out crowd at London’s…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA at the weekend seized 12,385 kilograms of Loud Cannabis, a strong variant of the illicit weed imported from a neighbouring country and smuggled into Lagos through the waterways. Director, Media & Advocacy NDLEA Headquarters, Abuja, Femi Babafemi in a statement sighted by NewsRangers…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 70-year-old woman, Mrs. Beatrice Aigbedion was among those arrested with 5,000 kg of assorted illicit drugs in Edo State. Director, Media & Advocacy NDLEA Headquarters, Abuja, Femi Babafemi in a statement said, at the point of her arrest in Irrua, Edo State last Wednesday, 70-year-old Mrs. Aigbedion was caught with…
