LAGOS APRIL 17TH (URHOBOTODAY)-World Athletics has rejected the applications of 11 elite athletes to switch their nationality to Turkey. The governing body said the requests were “part of a coordinated recruitment strategy” by the country’s government “to attract overseas athletes through lucrative contracts”. The 11 athletes included five Kenyans – including former women’s marathon world…
LAGOS MAY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Saudi Arabian authorities have prevented the Kaduna-based Islamic cleric Sheikh Gumi from performing the 2025 Hajj exercise, the PUNCH reports. In a post on his Facebook page on Monday, the cleric confirmed that he had returned to the country, adding that the Saudi authorities were “uncomfortable” with his presence in the…
LAGOS MAY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Supreme Court on May 16 continued to block the Trump administration from using a 1798 wartime law to deport a group of Venezuelan migrants who said they had not been given a real chance to contest their removal. In an unsigned opinion with two noted dissents, the court said the migrants…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu, has declared that the 31 applications for new state creation in Nigeria are invalid because they do not meet the constitutional requirements. Kalu made this known during an interview with TVC News, where he explained that none of the proposals had fulfilled the…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A federal judge on Friday dealt President Donald Trump and billionaire ally Elon Musk their first big setback in their dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development, ordering a temporary halt to plans to pull thousands of agency staffers off the job. U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee, also…
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 OCTOBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian commercial bank Fidelity Bank is restricting consumer fund transfers to neobanks, including Moniepoint, Kuda, OPay, and PalmPay, said multiple sources with direct knowledge of the matter. A week ago, a small number of customers first noticed that these neobanks were no longer listed on the list of approved financial institutions on…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has stopped the Independent National Electoral Commission from engaging the services of the chairman of the Lagos State Parks Management Committee, Musiliu Akinsanya, popularly known as MC Oluomo, to distribute election materials in the state pending the hearing and determination of…