LAGOS FEBRUARY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-World boxing champion Anthony Joshua is enjoying his stay in Nigeria, with a visit Thursday night to the Afrika Shrine in Ikeja Lagos, where he was hosted by the high priest, Femi Kuti. Joshua was a humble champion all over again, as he prostrated to Femi, in the typical Yoruba tradition of…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Michelle Obama has visited late Dora Akunyili’s daughter at work. The former US first lady visited Nigerian born Njideka Akunyili Crosby. Njideka, a visual artist sold a 2017 botanical painting — Bush Babies for $3.4m and evr since then, she has been rated among the best in America. The visit was announced…
LAGOS OCTOBER 2TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari will be travelling to London, the United Kingdom, on a private visit after attending the Economic Forum of the Future Investment Initiative (FII) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Femi Adesina, the special adviser to the president on media and publicity, made this known in a statement released on Monday, October…
LAGOS AUGUST26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Following the order given by Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), to attack any Nigerian leader who travels abroad, members of the group have converged on Japan in anticipation of the visit of President Muhammadu Buhari. President Buhari is billed to attend the 7th Tokyo International Conference on…
LAGOS APRIL 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Pope Francis who is on visit to Morocco warned political leaders who want to build walls to keep out migrants “end up prisoners of the walls that they build.” Francis said he simply couldn’t understand in his head or his heart how a government could be so cruel as to put up…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former President of United States of America, Bill Clinton, is expected to visit Nigeria a day before the presidential election, The PUNCH learnt on Monday. During the visit, Clinton will meet President Muhammadu Buhari, who is the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress and Atiku Abubakar, the Presidential candidate of…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Although former President Olusegun Obasanjo has distanced himself from the second term of President Muhammadu Buhari, Olujuwon, one of his sons, visited the president at Aso Rock on Thursday. Olujuwon, who had earlier declared support for the reelection of Buhari, held a meeting with the president at his official residence at the…
LAGOS OCTOBER 31S (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday in the Presidential Villa held a closed-door meeting with four of the six South-south governors. The meeting which held between 3 and 4p.m., was attended by Governors Nyesom Wike (Rivers), Seriake Dickson (Bayelsa), Udom Emmanuel (Akwa Ibom) and Ifeanyi Okowa (Delta). After the meeting, Dickson who spoke on…
