By Samuel Akpobome Orovwuje LAGOS JULY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The regretful narrative of episodic elections and political leadership deficit reminds me of Robert Kaplan classic entitled: The coming of Anarchy. In the book, he painted a gloomy picture of how episodic experiment in democracy, scarcity, crime, over population, ethnicity, and weak leadership are rapidly destroying the social…
LAGOS JULY 5TH(NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Customs Service, Zone “B” Federal Operations Unit, has impounded an empty petrol tanker, a J5 bus and a truck conveying smuggled rice on the Kaduna-Zaria axis. Usman Dakingari, the Controller, FOU Zone B, dropped the hint while addressing journalists on the seizures in Kaduna on Wednesday. He said that the customs…
LAGOS JULY 5TH (NEWRANGERS)- French President Emmanuel Macron shook up his two-day visit to Nigeria with a stop at the New Afrika Shrine, a concert hall founded by the late music legend Fela Kuti where partying Nigerians gather, though the usual gyrating dancers and marijuana were absent. Macron, who was an intern in Nigeria at…
LAGOS JULY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Chief Femi Adesina charged those against the administration’s ranching and colony programmes for herdsmen to rethink, noting that they are better off living with the ranches and colonies than dying through the persisting conflicts. Femi Adesina, speaking on an AIT morning programme in…
LAGOS JULY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has sealed a $475 million bilateral deal with France President Emmanuel Macron to aid a number of infrastructural projects cutting across three states. The initial beneficiaries will include Lagos, Kano and Ogun states. The agreement was sealed while Buhari played host to Macron in Abuja on Tuesday. Lagos aspect…
LAGOS JULY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Following recent killings in the country, the Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Adams, yesterday, declared his readiness to lead fight against killer herdsmen. Calling for a South-West Security Summit to discuss herdsmen killings in the zone, Adams noted that events of the last few months have shown that Nigeria is…
LAGOS JULY4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A gang of robbers have met their Waterloo at Morogbo, in the Badagry area of Lagos State after they were caught for robbing a bank customer of N250,000. PUNCH Metro learnt that the suspects were beaten to a pulp by a mob on Friday before they were handed over to policemen from the…
LAGOS JULY 4H (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Police Force says investigation is ongoing to arrest the suspected killers of seven policemen in Galadimawa area of Abuja. Suspected gunmen on Monday night at a roundabout in Galadimawa area of Abuja killed the policemen who were on stop-and-search duty. The force spokesman and Acting Deputy Commissioner of Police, Jimoh…