Features | NEWS RANGERS

Nigeria Is At risk Of Becoming A Failed State ― Financial Times Editorial

LAGOS DECEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Financial Times has reported that Nigeria is at risk of becoming a failed state. According to an editorial published earlier on Tuesday, the UK-based newspaper said the spate of insecurity in the country shows that the Nigerian “the government is no longer in control.” With over 200 million people, Financial Times […]

Dec 23 2020 | Posted in Features,National | Read More »

President Buhari Helpless As Criminals Take Over Nigeria

LAGOS DECEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-IF anyone still doubted that criminals have overrun parts of Nigeria, the audacious bandits that stormed Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State, on December 11 and ferried away over 300 boys erased all such illusion. The kidnapping was spectacular in itself; the fact that the terrorists struck in a town a […]

Dec 23 2020 | Posted in Features,National | Read More »

Brazil President Warns Against Use Of Pfizer Covid-19 Vaccine, Says It May Turn Users To Crocodile

LAGOS DECEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro in a fresh attack on the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, that has shown 95% efficacy in Phase 3 clinical trials, said that the vaccine may cause someone to turn into a crocodile. “In the Pfizer contract it’s very clear: ‘We’re not responsible for any side effects.’ If you turn into crocodile […]

Dec 22 2020 | Posted in Features,Health,National | Read More »

Just Let Journalists Do Their Jobs

Opinion by Nima Elbagir, CNN LAGOS DECEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-In Yemen’s Houthi-controlled north, four journalists — Abdul Khaleq Amran, Akram Al-Walidi, Hareth Humaid, and Tawfiq Al-Mansouri — are on death row. They are charged with treason and conspiring with “the enemy” — the Saudi-led coalition fighting the Houthis. In Aden, the internationally recognized government’s capital in […]

Dec 21 2020 | Posted in Features,International,National | Read More »

Rescued Nigerian Schoolboys Welcomed Home, Calls For More Security

LAGOS DECEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Bleary, barefoot, apparently numbed by a week of captivity, more than 300 Nigerian schoolboys, freed after being kidnapped in an attack on their school, were welcomed by the governor of Katsina state Friday. Reunions that are more celebratory and emotional likely will come when the boys are finally reunited with their families, […]

Dec 19 2020 | Posted in Features,State | Read More »

Nigeria Rice Farmers Massacre: Survivors Recount A Tale Of Horror

LAGOS DECEMBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-For several days, the killers lived peaceably among their future victims, sharing their dormitories and eating their food. Then, on Saturday afternoon, they took out their guns, rounded up the people like cattle and slaughtered them one by one. This was the nightmare recounted by survivors of a massacre that unfolded in […]

Dec 3 2020 | Posted in Features,National | Read More »

Threats, Detentions And Frozen Assets: Nigeria’s Protesters Illustrate Pattern Of Intimidation

LAGOS NOVEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At 7 a.m. on a recent Saturday, Onomene Adene received a call from a man whose voice she did not recognise. The man said he knew her from church and asked for help getting a package to their pastor. She agreed to meet him at a bank near her home in the […]

Nov 30 2020 | Posted in Features,National | Read More »

Zimbabweans Regret Replacing Mugabe With Brutal New Leader

LAGOS NOVEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Three years after a military coup that toppled Zimbabwe’s long-time dictator Robert Mugabe, many people in the country have come to a conclusion they can scarcely believe: they regret replacing the old despot. Though many people in Zimbabwe are glad Mugabe was ousted before he died last year, they have deep regrets […]

Nov 30 2020 | Posted in Features,International,National | Read More »

Nigerians Demand For The Where About Of Amotekun After Serial Killings, Kidnapping In Ogun

LAGOS NOVEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Where is Amotekun?, That is the question that is on the lips of so many people after the series of attacks that happened in Ondo state this week. Earlier in the week, Olu Falae who is a former secretary to the Government of Nigeria under the Babagida regime, and a farmer based […]

Nov 29 2020 | Posted in Features,National | Read More »

Despite Border Closure, Contraband Are Being Smuggled Into Nigeria In Large Scale

LAGOS NOVEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As the Yuletide season approaches, more smuggled items — mainly foreign parboiled rice, tomato paste, frozen chicken and cars — are still being smuggled into the country in large scale, closure of Nigerian borders notwithstanding. Investigations by The Guardian revealed that tonnes of foreign rice flooded Nigerian markets, after the EndSARS unrest […]

Nov 27 2020 | Posted in Features,National | Read More »