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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
By Dr. Law Mefor LAGOS NOVEMBER 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)–A political thinker posited that politics is a concentric circle of conspiracies. It is such a conspiratorial game that while statesmen worry about development to cater for the present and coming generations, politicians are busy scheming how to retain power, return to power, or gain power. Nigerian politicians…