LAGOS DECEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Napoli has made it clear that it wants €75 million cash after it rejected Galatasaray’s offer of paying €25 million straight away and the rest €50 million to be paid in three instalments for Super Eagles ace, Victor Osimhen. The €75 million release clause in Osimhen’s contract has left the Galatasaray management…
LAGOS OCTOBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government on Tuesday said the petition by Yoruba nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, also known as “Sunday Igboho”, calling on the United Kingdom to consider the Yoruba nation was not endorsed by the UK government. In a statement, the spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Eche Abu-Obe, described media…
LAGOS AUGUST 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Joe Ajaero, has declined an invitation from the Nigeria Police Force, citing prior engagements. The rejection was contained in a letter from Ajaero’s lawyers, Falana and Falana Chambers, addressed to the Inspector General of Police. The letter stated that the police invitation, which was…
LAGOS AUGUST 13TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-Real Madrid’s Brazilian star Vinícius Júnior has rejected the chance to leave the club and move to Saudi Arabia on a contract which would have been worth almost €1 billion over five years, according to Spanish reports. The striker, who has constantly been the butt of racism in Spain, nevertheless turned down…
LAGOS JANUARY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Dangote refinery is preparing to import crude from the US in the forthcoming months, signalling the increasing competitiveness of American barrels in the global market. This is according to reports from Bloomberg. Traders’ familiar with the matter disclosed that Trafigura Group has sold 2 million barrels of WTI Midland to the…
LAGOS JANUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management, and Social Development, Sadiya Umar-Farouq, on Wednesday, shunned an invitation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission probing the N37.1bn allegedly laundered during her tenure in office through a contractor, James Okwete. Umar-Farouq kept interrogators waiting for over eight hours on Wednesday without an official…
LAGOS DECEMBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-West Africa’s top court on Thursday rejected a request by Niger’s junta for a lifting of coup-related sanctions imposed by its neighbors, ruling that the junta is unconstitutional and therefore lacks the authority to make such a request. Following the July coup that toppled Niger’s President Mohamed Bazoum, the West African regional…
LAGOS OCTOBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As efforts to resolve the Niger crisis continue, overtures by the head of the military junta in that West African country, General Abdourahamane Tchiani, to have direct access and discussion with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has been outrightly rejected by the Nigerian leader, Empowered Newswire reports. According to diplomatic sources, consenting to…
