LAGOS JANUARY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Atletico Madrid pulled off a stunning turnaround to beat FC Barcelona 3-2 in an enthralling Spanish Super Cup tie in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on Thursday. They thus booked their place in the final of the revamped competition where they will face Real Madrid on Sunday. Argentine forward Angel Correa struck the decisive…
LAGOS JANUARY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 23-year-old lady, Omolola Ajayi, has revealed in trending video how a family friend trafficked and sold her into slavery in Lebanon. The video, which hit the social media yesterday, has been shared several times by worried Nigerians. In the video, Omolola, in a voice filled with anguish and desperation, begged Nigerians…
LAGOS JANUARY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-“I am not a hero,” said softly spoken Raymond Juma. The bus driver was speaking after his actions saved his 47 passengers from a militant attack in the east of Kenya. “My passengers are like my mothers, my brothers and sisters. “I just did what anyone else would have done to save…
LAGOS JANUARY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 300 members of Pastor Paul Adefarasin’s House on the Rock Church have reportedly left for greener pastures. According to Opera News on Wednesday, Pastor delivered the news himself in his sermon on the first Sunday of the New Year, held at The Rock Cathedral in Lekki, Lagos. The cleric…
LAGOS JANUARY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-On Thursday afternoon, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 was struck down by an Iranian surface-to-air missile on Wednesday. “We have intelligence from multiple sources…including our own intelligence, that the plane was shot down by an Iranian surface-to-air missile,” Trudeau said. “This may well have been unintentional.” Foreign…
LAGOS JANUAY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Justice Jude Okeke of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has sentenced the Director-General of the National Council for Arts and Culture (NCAC), Olusegun Runsewe, to prison. Justice Okeke made the order on Thursday while ruling on a motion drawn from a suit filed by Ummakalif Limited against the…
LAGOS JANUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A suspected military man is said to be on the run after he allegedly slit the throat of a man in the Itire area of Lagos State. PUNCH Metro gathered that the fleeing suspect perpetrated the crime during an argument with the deceased on Wednesday. Efforts to rescue the victim, who was…
LAGOS JANUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos State Police Command has arrested members of a syndicate who specialise in defrauding unsuspecting members of their church with fake miracles, thus dispossessing them of their valuables. The suspects were identified as Lawal Damilola (29), Makinde Folashade (49), Babayemi Joke (37), Precious Sunday (20), Victoria Emmanuel (42) and Gift Adams…
