LAGOS SEPTEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The flooding that hit Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, in the wee hours of yesterday has submerged hundreds of houses and destroyed lots of properties. The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) confirmed that over 200,000 people were displaced. An unspecified number of people, including children are still missing. Many properties including, houses,…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Lionel Messi will not win another Ballon d’Or this year after being left out of the nominees revealed by organisers on Wednesday, as stars of Spain’s Euro 2024-winning team and Real Madrid’s Champions League victors feature heavily. Messi claimed the eighth Ballon d’Or of his glittering career last year. Now aged 37,…
LAGOS JULY 12TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-Rescuers are searching for more than 60 missing people in Nepal after a massive landslide swept two buses into a river. Some spoke of their terrifying ordeal, with one saying he was “thrown out of the window of the bus into the river”. Only three people appeared to have survived the accident,…
LAGOS JULY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Cristiano Ronaldo has been heavily criticised for his reaction to missing a penalty for Portugal against Slovenia at Euro 2024. The former Manchester United and Real Madrid forward was handed the opportunity to break the deadlock in the round of 16 game when the referee pointed to the spot in extra time…
LAGOS JUNE 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A journalist in Atar Communication, owners of Liberty TV/Radio, was reportedly found dead on Wednesday in Abuja, five days after he was declared missing. Joel Waksi, an On-Air Personality (OAP) in the media outfit, was said to have left office around 9pm on Friday and was expected to report back to duty…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has claimed that all the stolen public funds recovered between 2016 and 2019 by the immediate past government of Muhammadu Buhari are missing from the Central Bank of Nigeria. The group revealed this on Wednesday afternoon via its verified X-page, adding that the missing looted…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 8TH *NEWSRANGERS)-First responders have located the military helicopter which went missing on a flight from Nevada to California on Tuesday, but the five US Marines on board remain missing. The CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter was located in Pine Valley, Calif. at about 9 a.m. local time by using ground and air crews, according to Marine officials. First…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Chinese billionaire banker Bao Fan, who has been missing for almost a year, has resigned from his financial firm, China Renaissance Holdings Ltd. He stepped down “for health reasons and to spend more time on his family affairs,” the bank said in a statement. Mr Bao’s unexplained disappearance in February last year…