LAGOS AUGUST 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A United States Marine Corps aircraft crashed on a north Australian island Sunday, killing three Marines and injuring 20 during a multination training exercise, officials said. Three had been confirmed dead on Melville Island and five of the 23 on board were flown in serious condition 80 kilometers (50 miles) to the…
LAGOS AUGUST 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Mr. Chiejina Harry, an entrepreneur and the CEO of HarryskyshowNG, a leading e-commerce platform, has disclosed how he got into cryptocurrency business and launched his company seven years ago. In an interview with NewsRangers, Chiejina recalled he started as a worker as installer of car tracking device with a brand named…
LAGOS AUGUST 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Christopher Musa, chief of defence staff (CDS), says the military will hunt down bandits who killed 22 soldiers in Niger state. Musa spoke on Friday at the burial ceremony of the soldiers at the national military cemetery in Abuja. On August 14, an aircraft conveying wounded soldiers from the scene of the…
LAGOS AUGUST 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The President of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria, Tonobok Okowa, has expressed concern over recent cases linking Nigerian athletes to fraudulent activities in the United States, The PUNCH reports. US-based Nigerian long jumper Mercy Abire, 28, currently faces the risk of a substantial 20-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to conspiracy to…
LAGOS AUGUST 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-France has reacted to the directives of coup leaders in the Niger Republic asking its Ambassador, Sylvain Itte, in the country to leave within 48 hours. According to France, the coup leaders in Niger do not have the authority to expel its ambassador in Niamey. Naija News had earlier reported that the…
LAGOS AUGUST 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Women’s affairs ministers from Commonwealth countries, including representatives from Nigeria, have committed to a roadmap yesterday, designed to scale up efforts to achieve gender equality and empower women and girls, especially in climate action. The roadmap was the result of three-day deliberations among ministers at their triennial Commonwealth meeting in The Bahamas…
LAGOS AUGUST 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Philomina Ngozi Christopher-Oji is the chief executive officer of Phil Chris Media Company, Lagos, Nigeria, and publisher of Cornerstonenewsng.com. The former banker-cum-interior decorator turned journalist has linked the ritual killings and sudden disappearances of citizens to the government and its agents. In this telephone interview with journalists, as she has gone underground…
LAGOS AUGUST 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Friday that he had warned Russian mercenary chiefs Yevgeny Prigozhin and Dmitry Utkin to watch out for possible threats to their lives, and he insisted that Wagner fighters would remain in Belarus. President Putin initially vowed to crush Prigozhin’s June mutiny, comparing it to the wartime…
