LAGOS AMY 2ND(EWSRANGERS)-Former President Goodluck Jonathan has arrived in Johannesburg, South Africa, along with election observers to monitor the South African national and provincial elections. This comes a year after Jonathan led observers to monitor elections in Sierra-Leone. A post on his Facebook page read, “I arrived in Johannesburg early this morning to lead the…
LAGOS MAY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A Dutch court said on Wednesday it has jurisdiction to hear a damages suit brought against Royal Dutch Shell by four widows of activists executed by the Nigerian government in 1995. In a preliminary decision, judges at the Hague District Court said they would allow the suit to go forward, a rare…
LAGOS AMY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) has called for an end to exploitation of journalists through casualisation of their employment by some media organisations. ”This type of employment is promoting compromises in the journalism profession for financial gratifications,” Mr Paul Jatau, the Chairman of NUJ, Plateau Council, told the News Agency of…
LAGOS May 1st (newsrangers)-As the world celebrates this year’s May Day, Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Peter Obi, has commended Nigerian workers for their commitment, saying that it is their labour that keeps Nigeria going. Speaking to airport correspondents on Tuesday at the Domestic wing of the Murtala Muhammed International…