LAGOS JANUARY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Amnesty International has revealed that life of 10 leaders of the independent movement in the Anglophone regions of Cameroon could be at risk of torture and unfair trials if extradited from Nigeria, where they have been arrested and detained in secret for one week. The human right’s group said that on…
By Emmanuel Ogebe LAGOS JANUARY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Long before I arrived in the United States in 1997 on political asylum, I’d heard the apocryphal story of the visiting African who was asked by an American whether it was “true that Africans live on trees?” The well-educated and well-spoken African responded: “Yes, it is true, and the…
LAGOS JANUARY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-I read one of President Muhammadu Buhari’s ministers say that his boss is poised to seek re-election in 2019. Before his poorly-packaged, unsolicited public service announcement, there were media reports that former Rivers governor and current minister of Transport, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, had been quietly reappointed as Director-General of Buhari’s presidential (re-election)…
LAGOS JANUARY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Federal Minister Of Agriculture and Rural development, Audu Ogbeh has affirmed that National Egg Production Scheme (NEPRO) if fully implemented would provide one million jobs nationwide through egg production, processing and marketing. According to the Minister, the target of the scheme is to achieve a daily production of 50million eggs over the…
LAGOS JANUARY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Neymar could be set to smash his own world-record transfer fee and make a sensational move to Real Madrid. The former Barcelona star became the most expensive footballer in history when he moved to PSG for £198million in August. But after less than six months in France, it appears the Brazilian is…
LAGOS JANUARY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Female football fans entered a stadium in Saudi Arabia’s western city of Jeddah on Friday, becoming the first women to attend a football match in the conservative kingdom. Women wearing green and white scarves to represent their team colours lined up to enter the stadium, images posted by Saudi newspaper Okaz on…
LAGOS JANUARY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-More than 15,000 Cameroonian refugees have fled to Nigeria amid a crackdown on Anglophone separatists, the United Nations (UN) refugee agency and Nigerian government officials said on Thursday. The once-fringe English-speaking movement in majority French-speaking Cameroon has gathered pace in the last few months after a military crackdown on protests, leading it…
LAGOS JANUARY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Presidency on Friday said the health of President Muhammadu Buhari’s son, Yusuf, who was admitted into Cedarcrest Hospital, Abuja, on December 26, 2017 following injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident, has improved remarkably and he is ready to be discharged. The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr….