LAGOS JANUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has disclosed that Victor Osimhen and Ademola Lookman settled their differences hours after both had an on-field spat during Nigeria’s 4-0 win over Mozambique in their AFCON round of 16 tie on Monday. The NFF, through the Super Eagles camp administrator Dayo Enebi Achor, disclosed this to…
LAGOS JANUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi, on Tuesday shared a personal encounter that highlighted what he described as the deep failures in Nigeria’s healthcare system, saying the country is not poor but poorly governed. Obi, in a post on his official X (formerly Twitter) handle, recounted a…
LAGOS JANUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-South Africa has said it will clamp down on unregistered traditional initiation schools for young men, after at least 41 died in recent coming-of-age rites involving circumcision. Tens of thousands of teenagers take part in highly secretive initiations each year as a rite of passage into manhood practised by some of…
LAGOS JANUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nicolas Maduro’s congressman son called on Sunday for Venezuelans to take to the streets following his father’s ouster by US forces and transfer to a New York jail. “You will see us in the streets, you will see us by people’s sides, you will see us fly the flag of dignity,” Nicolas…
LAGOS JANUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Labour Party Presidential candidate Mr Peter Obi has condemned the killings rocking some parts of Nigeria, stressing that it is time to end this endless killings. Lamenting the recent killings of forty people by terrorists in Niger state, Obi said it is deeply worrisome and unacceptable that, as we usher…
LAGOS JANUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-After President Donald Trump expanded the travel ban he put in place during his first term in the White House to 20 more countries and the Palestinian Authority last December, at least three other nations responded in turn with visa bans for Americans. On Dec. 26, the West African nation of Niger…
LAGOS JANUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The defection of the 2023 Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, to the African Democratic Congress has begun to boost the party’s political strength in the South, with no fewer than eight federal lawmakers reportedly set to officially join the ADC, barring any last-minute change of plans. Obi, a former governor of…
LAGOS JANUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Amid controversy over impact on terrorists, fresh findings have shown that the Christmas Eve US airstrikes destroyed Lakurawa terrorist camps in Sokoto forests, with survivors fleeing the area, Sunday PUNCH can report. Residents of villages close to the terrorist enclaves, including Kawuri-Kandam, Malgam and Kahuri of Tangaza Local Government Area of…