LAGOS JULY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan set a new world record in the women’s 100m hurdles at the World Athletics championships in Eugene on Sunday. In the first track event of the final session of the 10th day of competition, Amusan streaked to a winning time of 12.12 seconds in the first of three…
LAGOS JULY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-All Progressives Congress Presidential Candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, says all Nigerians should feel great pity and sadness for the candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. In his desperate attempt to win the election by stoking religious bias, Atiku has reduced himself to uttering baseless lies on national television. “We…
LAGOS JULY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The United Nations, UN Human Rights Council Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, has indicted both Nigeria and Kenya Governments for the arrest and extraordinary rendition, torture and continued detention of the Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, without due process. UN therefore, asked Nigerian Government to, “immediate…
LAGOS JULY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State has said he was neither against the aspiration of Mr Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of Labour Party, nor the quest for the Nigeria’s president of Igbo extraction in 2023. Umahi made the clarifications on Friday while reacting to a post making the rounds on social…
LAGOS JULY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-As parts of efforts to strengthen the fight against migrants’smuggling,the Service has inaugurated the Objects of Smuggling of Migrants Trust Fund Management Board at the Service Headquarters Abuja. The inauguration represents a significant milestone in the Service’s determination to not only combat persons engaged in migrant smuggling but also ensure that victims…
LAGOS JULY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Online Publishers Association of Nigeria (OPAN) strongly condemns today’s raid of online newspaper, Peoples Gazette’s office in Abuja and the subsequent arrest of five journalists by armed policemen. According to news reports, the policemen forcefully entered the media office and demanded to see managing editor, Samuel Ogundipe and a reporter…
LAGOS JULY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Police Force, Federal Capital Territory Command, has denied raiding the head office of Peoples Gazette newspaper. Policemen on Friday allegedly raided the head office of the newspaper in Abuja and arrested one of its editors, journalists, and staff members. According to a report by Peoples Gazette, John Adenekan, an assistant…
LAGOS JULY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerians on social media on Friday knocked the Peoples Democratic Party presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, over his claim that 90 per cent of northerners are not on social media. Atiku, who is Nigeria’s former Vice President, while responding to a question in an exclusive interview with Arise TV on Friday morning, played…
