By Ifreke Inyang LAGOS NOVEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-On Tuesday evening, Nigerians squirmed for 90 minutes, as their national team played out a 1-1 draw with Cape Verde in their final 2022 World Cup qualifying. The result was enough to send the Super Eagles into the playoffs in March 2022. But it wasn’t enough to fill fans…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Social media users described the descending piece of white cloth as one of the wonders of the generation but our investigations reveal a straightforward truth. Could a cloth truly have fallen from the sky? This and many more were the questions asked by social media users who saw footage of what appears…
By Chief Malcolm Emokiniovo Omirhobo . LAGOS OCTOBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Learned gentlemen of the legal profession both at the bar and bench , today the 27th day of October, 2021 my faith in the Nigerian judiciary was shaken to its foundation . Today my high hopes that the Nigerian judiciary is the last hope of…
By Ikechukwu Amaechi LAGOS OCTOBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-For some Nigerian politicians, the recently leaked Pandora Papers which chronicled offshore services firms that set up shell companies for clients – many of them influential politicians and businesspersons allegedly seeking to conceal their financial dealings – was an aha moment. The eureka effect on them was most palpable….
LAGOS OCTOBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, have come a long way together and worked at close quarters for common purposes to warrant any suggestion of conflict or battle for supremacy between them. From their public aspirations, it is obvious they still…
By Fred Chukwuelobe LAGOS OCTOBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) last Sunday released the “Pandora Papers,” an exposé of the financial secrets and offshore dealings of dozens of heads of state, public officials and politicians from 91 countries and territories. Incidentally, Mr. Peter Obi, former governor of Anambra State and Vice-Presidential candidate…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Straddling a caravan route to the Sahara, the city of Sokoto has since ancient times been a major trading hub in Nigeria’s extreme northwest savannah. But a surge in attacks and mass school kidnappings by criminal gangs, known locally as bandits, has dealt the region a terrible blow, making farming and trading…
By Michael Owhoko, Ph.D LAGOS SEPTEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-There are strong indications that the National Water Resources Bill 2020 will soon be reintroduced at the National Assembly. If passed into law, communities and people living along water fronts in the country, particularly Niger Delta Region, Lagos State and other aquatic areas in the country will be…