LAGOS MARCH 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian footballer has tragically died during a Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) match on Sunday. This is not a good news for Nigerian as the budding talent passed away after medics had tried their possible best to revive him. Central defender Chineme Martins was rated as one of the stand out…
LAGOS MARCH 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Students of Federal Polytechnic Oko in Anambra state woke up to a shocking scene as they found a newborn baby, with her placenta still attached,hanging from the barbed wire of the fence separating their compound from the empty plotof land beside it. Sources said the mother, a student of the school, gave…
LAGOS MARCH 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Masked men attacked a crowd of demonstrators marching on International Women’s Day, March 8, in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. The demonstration against gender-based violence was held in Bishkek, and arrests were made, according to AFP reports. The men, wearing traditional Kyrgyz white felt hats, tore placards, shot down balloons with toy guns, and threw…
LAGOS MARCH 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The world’s faltering effort to contain the coronavirus outbreak hammered stocks and crude oil on Sunday, as new cases surfacing across the U.S. amplified fears of a global downturn. Brent crude (BZ=F) prices collapsed, falling by as much as 31% on Sunday evening in what was the largest single-day drop since the…
LAGOS MARCH 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) on Thursday lamented the rise of Nigeria’s debt profile from N12.6trillion in 2015 to N26.2trillion in 2019. According to a statement signed by the Director-General of the LCCI, Muda Yusuf on Thursday, the nation’s national debt saw an increase of 108 percent within the…
LAGOS MARCH 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A hotel used for medical observation of people who had contact with coronavirus patients collapsed in southeastern China on Saturday, trapping some 70 people, state media reported. There were no immediate reports of deaths. At least 23 people were rescued from the wreckage of the Xinjia Express Hotel in Quanzhou, a city…
Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 general elections, Mr. Peter Obi, has described as deserving and highly rewarding the recent appointment of the former World Bank Managing Director, and former Minister of Finance of Nigeria, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, as a member of the South African Economic Advisory Council. Obi…
LAGOS MARCH 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Commonwealth gathering has called for an end to gender inequality by 2030 so every girl can have the same opportunities as boys. Ahead of International Women’s Day, Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland joined a gathering of leaders, celebrities, academics and activists in London to discuss ways to accelerate the progress. Despite decades…
