LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s presidential candidate in the 2023 elections, praised the Nigeria Police Force (NPF). He commended them for rescuing Mrs. Folashade Odumosu, wife of retired Assistant Inspector-General of Police (AIG) Hakeem Odumosu. Mrs. Odumosu was abducted on January 16 in Arepo, Ogun State. The kidnappers dragged her from…
LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The World Trade Organization chief said on Thursday that any tit-for-tat trade wars prompted by U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff threats would have catastrophic consequences for global growth, urging states to refrain from retaliation. WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, a former Nigerian finance minister, starts her second term as head of the global…
LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The bodies of 757 Ukrainian soldiers have been repatriated by the Russian side, the responsible coordination staff announced in Kiev on Friday. Of these, 451 were killed in the fighting near the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk, and 137 on the front line south of the city of Zaporizhzhya. Other bodies came…
LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-China has responded to U.S. President Donald Trump’s threats of imposing tariffs on goods exported to the United States. Since taking office, the American leader has signed numerous executive orders and reiterated his intention to impose tariffs of up to 20% on many countries trading with Washington. In an interview with Fox…
LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Mexico denied a U.S. military plane access to land Thursday, at least temporarily frustrating the Trump administration’s plans to deport immigrants to the country, according to two U.S. defense officials and a third person familiar with the situation. Two Guatemala-bound Air Force C-17s, carrying about 80 people apiece, flew deportees out of…
LAGOS JANUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Operatives of the Ogun State Police Command yesterday, raided a kidnappers’ den in a creek in Ikorodu area of Ogun State and rescued Mrs Folashade Odumosu, wife of AIG Hakeem Odumosu (rted) who was kidnapped last week. Two kidnappers were killed during the rescue operation after kidnappers reportedly engaged the operatives in…
LAGOS JANUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Victor Osimhen, the prolific Nigerian striker currently playing for Galatasaray, finds himself at the center of a controversy that has nothing to do with his goal-scoring prowess. Turkish media, particularly Posta, report that the forward allegedly assaulted a journalist outside an Istanbul nightclub last night. The incident reportedly occurred as Osimhen was…
LAGOS JANUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The former Minister of Federal Capital Territory FCT General Jeremiah Useni has passed on at the age of 82 after a protracted illness. Governor Caleb Muftwang of Plateau State who disclosed this in a statement signed by his Director of Press and Public Affairs, Gyang Bere depicted that the elder statesman passed…