LAGOS SEPTEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen have killed two people and abducted the All Progressives Congress Chairman of Rogo Local Government Area of Kano State, Alhaji Abdullahi Fanka, in a fresh overnight attack on the community. The latest attack came barely 24 hours after gunmen killed the APC Chairman of Rantan Ward in Bebeji Local Government Area,…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-VLADIMIR Putin is afraid that ending his relentless war on Ukraine without victory could cost him his life, insiders say. If the deranged dictator does not end his war with the fortress belt Donbas region of Eastern Ukraine, he reportedly told his inner circle he would be killed. According to The…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Four members of the same family have been confirmed dead after a three-storey building collapsed at Popo Giwa, Ilorin, Kwara State, on Tuesday morning. The PUNCH gathered that the incident occurred around 5am at No. 41 Popo Giwa Street, beside Gogoro Mosque, with eight members of the family initially trapped beneath the…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-FIFA has written to Nigerian football authorities, demanding clarifications over reports alleging government interference in the issues surrounding the Nigeria Football Federation, NFF. The Secretary General of the world football governing body, Mattias Grafström, signed the letter dated September 1, 2026. The correspondence noted that FIFA was aware that NFF President Ibrahim Gusau…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Managing Director of Nigerian Railway Corporation Dr Kayode Opeifa has described the sudden death of the former President of the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP), as a great loss to the Nigeria’s media industry and to the nation. Oladipo, former Politics Editor of The Punch Newspaper was until his…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A 68-year-old British woman who married a 31-year-old Nigerian man when he was just 27 has cried out after he disappeared after joining her in the UK. Dawn Otewell said she was lonely and depressed when she met Bright Emokpae, from Edo State, Nigeria. She said they met on a…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr Ola Olukoyede, says more than 40 staff members have been dismissed for corruption and financial malpractice in the last three years. Olukoyede disclosed this on Monday in Abuja at a media interactive session to mark his three-year stewardship at the commission’s headquarters. The…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent National Electoral Commission has commenced an examination of its records to determine how names allegedly unknown to the Nigeria Democratic Congress appeared on the party’s list of candidates for the 2027 general elections. The move followed allegations by the NDC that names of candidates it neither nominated nor authorised were…
