LAGOS JULY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former national team captain, Segun Odegbami, says he would have sacked Gernot Rohr after Nigeria’s 2-0 defeat to Madagascar at the ongoing Africa Cup of Nations if he were the Nigeria Football Federation boss. Odegbami, a guest on Channels TV programme, Sunrise Daily, on Monday faulted Rohr’s attitude during Nigeria’s matches, saying…
LAGOS JULY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The presidential election tribunal on Monday, July 8, heard a witness, Mohammed Tata, say that he was forced to sign the result of the poll with a threat that he could be removed as an N-Power beneficiary. Tata told the tribunal, which is looking into the complaint filed by the Peoples Democratic…
By Amos Okioma The leader of the All Progressive Congress in Bayelsa state, Chief Timipere Sylva , Werinipre Seibarugu, Nestor Binabor and other prominent members of the party were conspicuously absent at the formal declaration and opening of the campaign office of Senator Heineken Lokpobiri gubernatorial ambition in Yenagoa. However former minister of Agriculture and…
LAGOS JULY 9TH (NEWSRANGES)-Petitioners’ second witness at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, Mr. Peter Uzioma Obi, on Monday, said it was wrong to say the results of the February 23, 2019 presidential election were not transmitted electronically. Obi took the witness stand at the instance of the Peoples Democratic Democratic Party and its presidential candidate,…
LAGOS JULY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nura Dahiru, an assistant superintendent of customs, on Monday promoted himself to the rank of deputy comptroller-general of Customs (DCG), claiming he was directed by President Muhammadu Buhari to assume the office of comptroller-general (CG). Sources at the Customs headquarters in Abuja told TheCable that Dahiru walked in Monday morning wearing the…
LAGOS JULY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Hoodlums over the weekend invaded and attacked St. Peters Anglican Church, Aguleri in Anambra-East Local Government Area of Anambra State, inflicting injuries with machetes on a church teacher, the priest and the church gardener. DAILY POST gathered that the church teacher, Mr. Christopher Chukwu had come out in the dead of the…
LAGOS JULY 8TH (NEWRANGERS)-A former Congolese rebel leader has been found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Fighters loyal to Bosco Ntaganda carried out gruesome massacres of civilians, said judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC). Ntaganda, nicknamed “Terminator”, was convicted on 18 counts including murder, rape, sexual slavery and using child soldiers….
LAGOS JULY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A South African man who won the chance to be the first black African in space has died in a motorbike crash before turning his dream into reality, his family announced on Sunday. Mandla Maseko, a part-time DJ, and candidate officer with the South African Air Force, was nicknamed “Afronaut” after landing…
