LAGOS MARCH 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Amid the intensified Russia-Ukraine war and amounting to a major setback for Ukrainian forces, on Tuesday, March 8, Ukraine’s former President Viktor Yanukovych urged incumbent President Volodymyr Zelensky to call off the resistance and stop combatting foreign troops. Diluting the Kremlin-led full-fledged invasion of Ukraine, the ousted Head of State of Ukraine concluded that the ongoing […]
LAGOS MARCH 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)- President Muhammadu Buhari has approved $8.5m dollars to the ministries of Foreign Affairs and Humanitarian, Disaster Management, and Social Development, towards the evacuation of over 5,000 (registered and unregistered) Nigerians stranded in Ukraine. This was disclosed on Wednesday by the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Zubairu Dada. The minister told […]
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LAGOS FEBRUARY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-European countries from north to south are banning Russian planes from transiting through their airspace in protest over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Here’s a roundup: – Early birds – On Friday, Britain announces an immediate ban on Russian private jets from UK airspace, in response to President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine […]
LAGOS FEBRUARY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Russian and Ukrainian governments on Friday signalled an openness to negotiations even as authorities in Kyiv urged citizens to help defend the capital from advancing Russian force in the worst European security crisis in decades. Ukraine and Russia will consult in coming hours on a time and place for talks, Ukrainian […]
LAGOS FEBRUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Russian President Vladimir Putin signaled the start of a military operation in Ukraine early Thursday morning local time, announcing that Russian troops would enter Ukraine’s Donbas region. The territory is held by Russian-backed separatists, and Putin declared it independent of Ukraine earlier this week. “I have decided to conduct a special military […]
LAGOS FEBRUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Egypt coach Carlos Queiroz hit out at Cameroon legend Samuel Eto’o for sending a “very bad message” after likening Thursday’s Africa Cup of Nations semi-final between the sides to a “war”. Eto’o, who is now president of Cameroon’s Football Federation, made the comment to his team in a video widely published on […]
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LAGOS FEBRUARY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Comptroller General, Nigerian Customs Service, CGC,(Col) Hameed Ali (retd), last week inaugurated 18 gun boats and scanners in Rivers State. The 18 gun boats, our Correspondent reports, would be used by the Eastern Marine Command, EMC, of the service to reduce to the barest minimum if not eradicate the menace of smuggling […]
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LAGOS JANUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Members of the organised private sector (OPS) have advised the federal government to make deliberate efforts to remove impediments to the conduct of business in the country in 2022, especially with respect to clearing of goods at the ports, stressing that its war clearing goods at the country’s seaports. Also, following President […]
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LAGOS NOVEMBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS) – Ethiopian Olympic gold medallist and national hero Haile Gebrselassie pledged on Wednesday to join the fight against rebellious forces in his country, after the prime minister said he had gone to direct the war from the front lines. The 48-year-old retired champion, who set 27 long distance running records, told […]
LAGOS AUGUST 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)- – The son of Ahmad Shah Massoud, one of the main leaders of Afghanistan’s anti-Soviet resistance in the 1980s, has pledged to hold out against the Taliban from his stronghold in the Panjshir valley. In a Washington Post editorial, Ahmad Massoud, the 32-year-old son of the former mujahideen commander, said members […]
