LAGOS APRIL 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Three Americans convicted for their role in a failed coup in Democratic Republic of Congo last year have been sent home to the US to serve the rest of their jail terms. The three were originally sentenced to death by a military court before their sentences were commuted to life in prison…
LAGOS DECEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Twenty-three-year-old Syrian military conscript Farhan al-Khouli was badly paid and demoralized. His army outpost in scrubland near the rebel-held city of Idlib should have had nine soldiers but it just had three, after some had bribed the commanding officers to escape serving, he said. And, of the two conscripts with him, one…
LAGOS JULY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian boxer Cynthia Ogunsemilore was removed from the Paris Olympics women’s tournament after testing positive for a banned doping substance, the International Testing Agency said Saturday. The 22-year-old African Games lightweight champion tested positive for the diuretic furosemide in a sample taken Thursday, the ITA said. Furosemide is a masking agent that…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-For the 11th time in 19 editions, Team Nigeria finished their participation in the recently concluded World Athletics Championships without a medal. Ese Brume and Tobi Amusan who were the team’s major hopefuls after recent exploits on the international stage failed to make podium appearances. Brume had won a bronze medal in…
LAGOS JUNE 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two subpoenaed witnesses of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate, Atiku Abubakar, yesterday, admitted at the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) that the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) failed to transmit the results of the election after the collation. In their joint petition before the PEPC, Atiku and PDP acussed…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Col. Hameed Ali (rtd) has disclosed that the service did not meet its 2022 revenue collection target. He made the disclosure on Thursday in Abuja while fielding questions from newsmen at a briefing to mark the end of a three-day global conference organised by…
LAGOS DECEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A total of 439 foreign-trained medical and dental graduates failed the assessment examination conducted by the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria, The PUNCH has learnt. The two-day assessment examination was conducted on November 23 and November 24, 2022, at the Usmanu Danfodiyo University Teaching Hospital, Sokoto. The council’s Registrar, Dr Tijani Sanusi, disclosed…