LAGOS APRIL 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Head coach of the senior national team of Nigeria Eric Chelle will not include six players who were part of his inaugural squad in his soon to be released list of players for the unity friendly tournament in England, OwnGoalNigeria.com can exclusively reveal. The coach called up 23 players for the world…
LAGOS APRIL 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York in Manhattan has given Nigerian singer, David ‘Davido’ Adeleke, 21 days to appear before it to answer charges of intellectual property theft, according to legal filings sighted by Peoples Gazette. The lawsuit was filed by a group of four Nigerian…
LAGOS JANUARY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) has extended an invitation to former President Olusegun Obasanjo for a tour of the Port Harcourt Refinery to verify its operational status. This development follows Obasanjo’s recent interview with Channels Television, where he cited advice from Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) suggesting the refinery would…
LAGOS MARCH 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The President Bola Tinubu-led Nigerian government says it has invited Kaduna-based Islamic cleric, Ahmad Gumi, over his comments on the activities of bandits in the country. The Minister of Information and Orientation, Mohammed Idris, disclosed this while addressing journalists at the State House, Abuja, on Monday. Idris said Gumi was not above…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Chelsea captain, John Terry, who is being linked as a manager to Saudi club Al-Shabab, seems to be extending an invitation to his former teammate, Mikel Obi. Terry is said to have agreed to become the manager of the club, with further reports claiming that he has already met with the…
LAGOS APRIL 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, has congratulated Nigeria’s President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on his election victory. This was even as Zelensky invited him to his war-ravaged country of Ukraine on a state visit. The felicitation is coming two months after the former Lagos governor was declared winner of the contentious presidential…
LAGOS JULY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Senate, on Wednesday, resolved to summon the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, to educate and inform senators in a closed session on the reasons for the rapid depreciation of the value of the naira. It also mandated the Senate Committee on Banking, Insurance and Other Financial…
LAGOS JUNE 24TH (NEWSRAGERS)-The Canadian government has announced an acute shortage of manpower and invited Nigerians and other foreign nationals to fill existing vacancies in various sectors of the country’s economy. In a report by Statistics Canada seen by Ripples Nigeria on Thursday, the government said the labour shortage has reached an all-time high of…