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…
By Chief Mike Ozekhome SAN, OFR INTRODUCTION LAGOS NOVEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In difficult and trying times like these, such as we are presently experiencing in Nigeria, it becomes incumbent on patriots to ‘be extremely circumspect, even advisedly taciturn, in making public comments on trending burning issues. This is to prevent further pouring petrol on an already…
By Bolu Babalola LAGOS OCTOBER 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Fela Kuti’s 1989 song Beasts of No Nation was the first that the Afrobeat pioneer and Nigerian activist recorded after his twenty-month imprisonment under military rule of Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria’s head of state from 1983-85. Kuti was an active, audacious opponent of Buhari, who in turn sought to quiet…
By Chief Mike Ozekhome LAGOS OCTOBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-I just had, most humbly, the misfortune , of reading the 27 paragraph national broadcast by president Muhammadu Buhari. I had guffawed when many Nigerians awaited the speech with great expectations and bated animation, believing erroneously, that, like I had humbly advised president Buhari yesterday, he would roll…
LAGOS OCTOBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Crowds took to the streets again in Nigeria’s largest cities on Monday as the death toll rose in snowballing protests sparked by police brutality. Amnesty International said five people had died since the start of the weekend, taking the overall number of fatalities to 15 since demonstrations against abuses erupted this…
LAGOS OCTOBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)- “Nobody Knows tommorow” they say. Now, I can actually agree to the fact that ” no one knows tomorrow”. As things are getting better for some, things are getting from bad to worst for some. One thing is sure, there are bound to be Changes. Who would have given it a…
LAGOS OCTOBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-I have pains takenly read the write up of the learned silk, Pastor Femi Atoyebi SAN on CAMA, 2020 and I am obligated without necessarily being legalistic to write a rejoinder particularly as it touches on Not-for-profit organizations (NFPOs) in Nigeria which my learned senior focused on in his write up….
By Betty Alade LAGOS SEPTEMBER 28TH I want to emphasize here that I am doing this as a duty to myself, the public and to God Almighty Jehovah only. I am not in support of any man but in defence of my conscience. First as a Christian who is aware of the imminent second coming…
