http://ift.tt/2vyXsAs LAGOS AUGUST 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Neymar opened a new extravagant chapter in soccer history Friday as the game’s costliest player by fending off questions about his financial motivations as deftly as he repels opponents on the pitch. Paris Saint-Germain’s 222 million euro ($262 million) recruit was sticking to the script at his presentation in the French…
http://ift.tt/2v7mcgQ Owner of Vintage Hotel, Chief Patrick Okeze (right), and his workers – Sunday Isang (middle) and Bright Oba (left) before their arraignment at the Yaba Magistrate Court for allegedly aiding homosexuality, on Friday, August 4, 2017. LAGOS AUGUST 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Friday remanded three men accused of owning a…
http://ift.tt/2vpV53n LAGOS AUGUST 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, on Friday, paid a personal visit to President Muhammadu Buhari at Abuja House, London. This was confirmed by Buhari’s spokesperson, Femi Adesina, in a statement. Adesina said Welby and his principal are friends, who share deep respect for each other. “The cleric pledged to continue…
http://ift.tt/2v4gL3J L-R: Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki; Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka and former president, National Association of Seadogs(NAS), Dr Asani Omosuwa at the 20th Annual Wole Soyinka Lecture on the topic: Nigerian State in the Aftermath of the Centenary, Prospects for its indivisibility in Benin City on Friday. LAGOS AUGUST 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nobel Laureate,…
http://ift.tt/2ubRjKO LAGOS AUGUST 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-People were left in shock after a Nigerain man who reportedly injested drugs died after it exploded in his stomach. The man identified as Mr. Sylvanus Amachukwu Godwin, a Nigerian national with Passport Number A06011089 aboard an Ethiopian Airlines Flight 606 en-route Addis Ababa to Guangzhou, China allegedly slumped and died…
http://ift.tt/2uqlmdf Ladoja and Akala LAGOS AUGUST 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two former governors of Oyo State, Rasheed Ladoja and Adebayo Alao-Akala, appear to have begun moves to return to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Messrs. Ladoja and Alao-Akala were elected on the platform of the PDP as governor and deputy governor in 2003. Mr. Alao-Akala was later elected…
http://ift.tt/2v4ZBBw LAGOS AUGUST 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The money making scam, Mavrodi Mundial Moneybox (MMM), that collapsed months ago has launched a weekly promotional stunt, obviously aimed at wooing old and unsuspecting new ‘investors’. A letter displayed on the pages of participants of the scheme, urges them to invite new members. Members must invite new participants and register…
http://ift.tt/2v2LvCf LAGOS AUGUST 4TH (NWSRANGERS)-No fewer than four persons lost their lives as suspected cultists on Thursday attacked Udianga Enem community in Etim Ekpo Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State. Some of the local residents who spoke to newsmen said the gunmen arrived in several motorbikes and shot dead four persons including a pastor,…