LAGOS DECEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s failure to participate in the FIFA World Cup has sent the three-time African champions crashing down the global ranking The Super Eagles have suffered a sharp drop in rating in the December FIFA ranking updated just hours after the conclusion of the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. Previously ranked 32nd…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Qatar became the first World Cup host country to get eliminated after its first two games following a 3-1 loss to Senegal on Friday. It’s mathematically impossible for the 2022 World Cup hosts to be one of the top two teams in Group A and make it to the next round even…
LAGOS MARCH 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At the summit in Accra, leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) gave Mali’s military transitional government 12 to 16 months to arrange elections and offered Guinea’s ruling junta a month to propose a timeline for democratic transition. They also demanded Burkina Faso’s interim leaders immediately release President Roch…
LAGOS MARCH 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Prolific Liverpool scorer Mohamed Salah was the architect of the only goal as Egypt edged Senegal 1-0 in Cairo on Friday in a high-profile World Cup play-off first leg. Salah turned inside the box and slammed the ball against the crossbar with the rebound hitting Senegal defender Saliou Ciss and rolling into…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The police have arrested a 15-year-old boy who was nabbed trying to slit the throat of a 3-year-old girl. The incident happened in the city of Touba, Senegal, on Friday, February 4. The teenager was seen walking hastily with the girl towards an abandoned building at about 5pm. The manager of an…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Senegal’s President Macky Sall declared Monday a public holiday to celebrate the national football team’s first ever African Cup of Nations crown following their victory against Egypt, public television announced. Sall, who had been due to visit Comoros at the end of a trip that took in Egypt and Ethiopia, cancelled the…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Egypt called on Africa Cup of Nations organisers to delay this weekend’s final against Senegal to give them more time to prepare after overcoming hosts Cameroon on penalties in Thursday’s semi-final. “I want to state to all CAF authorities that Senegal have one extra day to train and therefore maybe we should…
By Ifreke Inyang LAGOS NOVEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-On Tuesday evening, Nigerians squirmed for 90 minutes, as their national team played out a 1-1 draw with Cape Verde in their final 2022 World Cup qualifying. The result was enough to send the Super Eagles into the playoffs in March 2022. But it wasn’t enough to fill fans…