LAGOS FEBRUARY 28TH (NEWSRANGRS)-Deontay Wilder admits he was “surprised” he lasted seven rounds against Tyson Fury to lose his WBC world heavyweight title. The American was knocked down twice before a seventh round stoppage in Las Vegas last weekend. Wilder rattled off a number of excuses for his first defeat of his career, but the…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Youssef El-Arabi scored in the last minute of extra-time as Olympiakos knocked Arsenal out of the Europa League on Thursday on a night when four former European champions were eliminated. Ajax, Celtic, Benfica and Porto went out but Manchester United hardly broke sweat after Simon Deli of Brugge conceded a penalty and…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)- – The African Union confirmed Thursday that it expected to send a temporary deployment of 3,000 troops to West Africa’s Sahel region, where regional forces are struggling to respond to a nearly eight-year-old onslaught by armed Islamists. The decision was made at the AU summit earlier this month, Smail Chergui, head…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Army confirmed on Wednesday night that a Corporal of serving at the Theatre Command Operation Lafiya Dole, Army Super Camp 15, located at Malam Fatori went berserk in early hours of 26 February 2020 and opened fire killing 4 of his colleagues before shooting himself. Col Sagir Musa, Acting Director,…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Supreme Court has upheld its judgement which sacked David Lyon of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as the governor-elect of Bayelsa State. It will be recall that the apex court, on February 13, sacked Lyon of the APC barely 24 hours to his inauguration. A five-member panel of the apex court…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Amidst sustained outrages on over billing, the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has barred the 11 Distribution Companies (DisCos) from charging residential customers above an average of N1,800 monthly until they are metered. In an Order 197 signed by the Chairman, Prof. James Momoh and the Commissioner, Legal, Licencing & Compliance, Dafe…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) during the 2019 elections, Mr Peter Obi, has described the founder of Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC), Sir Fazle Hasan Ahmed, as one of those that renewed one’s hope in the goodness of humanity. Obi was reacting to the death of Sir Fazle,…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents ANLCA disclosed on Tuesday, that customs brokers and freight forwarders in Nigeria have lost about N20b cumulatively as a result of fake and substandard importations into the country in the last ten years. National President of the foremost freight agents group , Tony Nwabunike made…
