LAGOS JANUARY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The crisis rocking the management of Radio Communication Nigeria Limited, RCN, one of the companies owned by the acclaimed winner of June 12, 1993 election, late M.K.O Abiola has snowballed into legal hostilities. Two administrators and personal representatives to the Estate of the deceased business mogul, Boma Alabi,Timothy Hugh Daniel, alongside two…
LAGOS JANUARY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Senegalese forward Sadio Mane has won the 2019 CAF African Player of the Year award. He beats Liverpool’s teammate Mohammed Salah and Manchester City’s Riyad Mahrez to win the award at the annual awards ceremony staged in Hurghada on Tuesday. Mane has been a finalist in the previous three editions of the…
LAGOS JANUARY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Temporary relief came the way of motorists plying the the completed section of the Lagos-Badagry expressway declared open for use by governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos state, but it appears, that, that excitement that greeted the commissioning of the Agboju to Trade Fair stretch of the highway is fading away as tankers…
LAGOS JANUARY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Army has confirmed an ambush by the Boko Haram terrorists on the convoy of the Theatre Commander of Operation Lafiya Dole (OPLD), Maj.-Gen. Olusegun Adeniyi. The Nigerian Army Operations Media Coordinator, Col. Aminu Iliyasu, in a statement on Tuesday, disclosed that the attack took place about two Kilometers to Auno…
LAGOS JANUARY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former President Goodluck Jonathan has denied the reports that he is under pressure to contest the 2023 presidential election. Jonathan made the denial through Ikechukwu Eze, his spokesman. The former president said he is rather focused on promoting peace and sustainable democracy in Africa. Asked to comment on the reports of Jonathan…
LAGOS JANUARY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Iran has fired more than a dozen ballistic missiles at two Iraqi bases housing American troops in a revenge attack for the U.S. drone strike that killed a top Iranian general. The Ain al-Asad airbase in western Iraq that was visited by Donald Trump in December 2018 and the Erbil base in Iraqi Kurdistan…
LAGOS JANUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday met behind closed doors with the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, at the State House. Although the subject of the discussion of the meeting was not disclosed, Asiwaju Tinubu told journalists that he visited the President to consort with him and…
LAGOS JANUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At least 30 people were killed in the northeastern Nigerian state of Borno after an improvised explosive device detonated on a bridge, sources told Reuters on Monday. The bomb detonated at roughly 5 p.m. local time (1600 GMT) on a crowded bridge in the market town of Gamboru that leads into neighboring…
