LAGOS MARCH 30TH (NEWSRANGERS0-Olabisi Ajala reputedly toured 87 countries on a scooter, meeting political leaders and celebrities until he returned home to die lonely and poor at 65 Even if conventional history ignores Olabisi Ajala, the phrase “Ajala the traveller”, a nickname in Southwest Nigeria for the footloose and the adventurous, means he would never…
By G. Fraser LAGOS MARCH 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s recent declaration of a six-month state of emergency in Rivers State has significant political implications, particularly concerning Governor Siminalayi Fubara and his predecessor, Nyesom Wike. This decisive action not only aims to address escalating political unrest and pipeline vandalism but also reshapes the power dynamics…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERANGERS)-Suse Lowenstein was working on a sculpture in her home studio in New Jersey when she received a phone call that would forever shatter her family. It came from a friend. In a trembling voice, she asked Lowenstein which flight her son, Alexander, was on from his semester studying abroad in London….
LAGOS FEBRUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Had the coup plotters led by Lt. Col. Buka Suka Dimka not noticed the door of General Murtala Muhammed’s Mercedes Benz car open minutes after it was sprayed with bullets from AK-47 assault rifles, triggering another round of firing, perhaps the late Head of State would have survived the brutal attack. The…
By Michael Owhoko, Ph.D LAGOS FEBRUARY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The unending darkness permeating Nigeria today,unarguably, was the mistake of 2013 when majority stakes in the electricity distribution companies (DISCOs) were sold to private investors as part of larger efforts to improve electricity supply, which was hitherto,disrupted by constant power failure across the country. Unfortunately, after 12 years…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-THE Nigeria Police Force is in the spotlight again. A video of its masked and weirdly dressed officers shooting and scaling a fence on a purported arrest mission makes this impossible to deny. The incident in Delta State is a throwback to the pre-#EndSARS protest days. What magic can President Bola Tinubu…
LAGOS JANUARY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Solar installations have reached new heights across the globe in 2024with a whopping 503 GWp of estimated capacity. This represents a 44% increase compared to 2023. In Africa, the growth is more modest but new installations maintain a solid level at 2.5 GWp after 2022 and 2023 being record years for solar…
Here are the details. Please refer to your story entitled ‘Court Freezes General Hydrocarbons’ Accounts over (Alleged) $225.8m Debt to First Bank’ and published in your platform of January 10/ 11, 2025, as well as other misleading and malicious stories on social media. The report alleged that a Federal High Court in Lagos has frozen…