LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Customs Service will lose 1,516 officers nationwide over the next two years following the release of statutory retirement lists covering 825 officers in 2026 and 691 officers in 2027. The retirement notices were contained in two restricted circulars issued by the Service’s Human Resource and Development Department and signed by…
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A French appeals court on Friday confirmed that Moroccan football star Achraf Hakimi will face trial for the alleged rape of a woman in 2023, which the Paris Saint-Germain defender denies. In February 2023, a woman then aged 24 told police in the Val-de-Marne region southeast of Paris that Hakimi had raped…
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The boyfriend of a Citibank Vice President who was beaten to death in her southeast London flat has been arrested after more than a year on the run. Brian Kiprop Kiplagat was arrested on June 10 after being intercepted by immigration officers at the border of Namanga as he attempted to cross…
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Ondo State Police Command has commenced investigation into the death of a 71-year-old church leader, Omotayo Ezekiel Fajana, whose body was discovered under suspicious circumstances in Akungba-Akoko, Akoko South-West Local Government Area. The development was confirmed by the Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Abayomi Jimoh, while speaking on Sunday with Western…
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Armed me have killed a former staff member of Ogun State Television, Mrs Kitan Oyesiku, popularly known as “Aunty Kitan”, alongside her security guard at her residence in Agodo community along the Abeokuta–Siun–Sagamu Expressway in the early hours of Sunday. The bodies of the deceased were said to have been deposited at…
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Oyo State Police Command has dismissed as false and misleading reports circulating on social media that victims abducted at Igbope in Oorelope Local Government Area of the state had been rescued. The Command said the claim, contained in a viral video and related online posts, was unfounded and capable of creating…
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGRS)-For the second straight World Cup game in Los Angeles, the pre-revolutionary Iranian flag was proudly displayed hours before kickoff. They fluttered above parking lots, draped across shoulders and tied around necks as makeshift capes. Some were folded neatly and tucked into back pockets as they entered the stadium. Others were hidden…
By Valentine Obienyem LAGOS JUNE 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Aeschylus’s “Seven Against Thebes” has often been described as a drama “chokeful of Ares” – a work saturated with martial tension, capturing the terrifying atmosphere of a city under siege, the panic of its citizens, and the constant clash of armed forces at its gates. It is a…