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Nigeria In Apparent Decay, Regression In All Fronts Under Tinubu

By Abiola Daisy Igaga and Bartholomew Okuodo LAGOS NOVEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)- Since the swearing in of the present government on May 29, 2023, the economic index of Nigeria has become worse in all respect. The country is witnessing heightened inflation, social facilities and infrastructures are in a state of pitiable decay, the rate of unemployment is getting […]

Nov 28 2023 | Posted in Features,National | Read More »

National Contradictions Bola Tinubu Must Resolve In 2024

By Michael Owhoko, Ph.D LAGOS NOVEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Any Nigerian with rational and open mind knows that complexity of governance in Nigeria today is rooted in the country’s political system, which by any stretch of imagination and logic, is unsuitable for a heterogenous society like Nigeria with over 250 ethnic groups that are characterized by incompatible […]

Nov 21 2023 | Posted in Features,National | Read More »

Victims Recount Ordeal As ‘One Chance’ Criminals Spread Sorrow In Abuja

LAGOS OCTOBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Amid the high rising buildings, beautiful scenery, headquarters of security agencies and constant show of force by the police, Army, Department of State Services (DSS) and National Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja, lies the atrocities of criminals popularly known as ‘one chance.’ They […]

Oct 17 2023 | Posted in Features,National | Read More »

The Lies Of Wole Soyinka On The 2023 Polls

By Chief (Barr.) Malcolm Omirhobo LAGOS SEPTEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At an event titled “The Lies Oh sorry , I mean the Lives of Wole Soyinka — A Dialogue” organised by Africa in the World, held in South Africa , Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka lied . He lied keeping a straight face that Labour Party leadership […]

Sep 15 2023 | Posted in Features,National | Read More »

PEPC & Elections: Will People Who Prefer Darkness Invest In Light?

By Sola Olumese LAGOS SEPTEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-I confess that last Wednesday, I feared I may be a masochist. I do not know what else one diagnoses after he spent most of 10 hours listening to the Presidential Election Petitions Court. I mean, I had other things to do, and I should have moved on to […]

Sep 10 2023 | Posted in Features,National | Read More »

Nigeria Court Throws Technology Role In Election Transparency Into Doubt

LAGOS SEPTEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS) — A court ruling that it is not mandatory for Nigeria’s electoral commission to transmit voting results electronically has thrown into doubt the future use of technology in Nigeria’s elections. The ruling by the presidential elections petition court on Wednesday suggests the hope that innovation would foster transparency and justice in […]

Sep 9 2023 | Posted in Features,National | Read More »

Nigeria Immigration Service and Hire Purchase Passports

By Michael Owhoko, Ph.D LAGOS SEPTEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-With athriving and fertile environment for extortion and racketeering, process for obtaining the Nigerian passport has turned the booklet into a hire purchase document where applicants pay official cost at point of application, connoting preliminary downpayment, and thereafter compelled to pay a bribe as balance in installments or […]

Sep 5 2023 | Posted in Features,National | Read More »

President Tinubu, Put Gear For Reverse On Subsidy

LAGOS JULY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-I would like to advise President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his economic advisers he seems to be lending listening ears to that without massive Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) roll-out, within the next two weeks, the subsidy policy will fail. And the CNG will have to be subsidized for the economy to be […]

Jul 30 2023 | Posted in Features,National | Read More »

Ghanaian Lawmakers Pass Bill To Protect People Accused Of Witchcraft

LAGOS JULY 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ghana’s parliament on Friday passed a bill to protect people accused of witchcraft, making it a crime to abuse them or send them away from communities. The new law was suggested after a 90-year-old woman was lynched in Kafaba in the East Gonja Municipality of the Savannah Region in July 2020, drawing […]

Jul 29 2023 | Posted in Features,National Space Research and Development Agency | Read More »

Hawkers, Beggars Take Over $1.6bn Rail Tracks In Lagos As Feaces, Refuse Litters Surrounding

LAGOS JULY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The $1.6 billion Lagos-Ibadan standard gauge rail project was conceived by the Federal Government as part of the plan to connect all 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) to convey passengers and goods while easing traffic congestion on the highways, among others. When it was opened for […]

Jul 17 2023 | Posted in Features,National | Read More »