LAGOS JULY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Idi Amin’s grandson was disqualified for a head butt in the third round of his opening super-heavyweight bout against England’s Damar Thomas at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. Twenty-five year old Aziz Abdul, who arrived on a mission to become “the new king of Scotland,” was penalised three times for fouls and…
LAGOS OCTOBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Justice Donatus Okorowo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, in a judgement delivered on Monday, disqualified the Bayelsa State All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate in the November 11 governorship election, Chief Timipre Sylva. Justice Okorowo ruled that Chief Sylva having been sworn in twice and ruled for five years as governor of…
LAGOS JUNE 5TH (NEWSRANFERS)-A witness of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has testified that both the party’s candidate and President Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) are not qualified to be declared as president for not scoring 25 percent in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). While testifying…
LAGOS MAY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Confederation of African Football, CAF, has kicked South Sudan out of the U-17 Nations Cup holding in Algeria over age falsification after five players in the Bright Star Juniors squad failed the Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) tests. The Confederation of African Football (CAF) had recently amended regulations regarding MRI. The part…
LAGOS JANUARY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Chad are the latest nation to fall foul of the age testing saga rocking African football after being disqualified from regional Under-17 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers due to start on Thursday, 12 January in Cameroon. It comes after one of their players failed a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) age test. Last…
LAGOS JANUARY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday rejected an offer of N13.1 billion from a bidder for a forfeited property in Lagos State. The property comprising 24 units of luxury flats located on Banana Island, an affluent part of Lagos State, was put on sale as a single unit in…
LAGOS DECEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Football fans have called for Lionel Messi’s second strike in the World Cup final to be ruled out – as substitutes were on the pitch. Messi finally got his hands on the World Cup trophy after, what fans have hailed, the greatest World Cup final of all time. The little magician…
LAGOS APRIL 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two unnamed presidential aspirants were disqualified on Friday from contesting the presidential primary by a panel set up by the People’s Democratic Party. The primary election will be held in May. The chairman of the committee and former President of the Nigerian Senate, David Mark, said those disqualified did not meet the…
