LAGOS JANUARY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-“I am not a hero,” said softly spoken Raymond Juma. The bus driver was speaking after his actions saved his 47 passengers from a militant attack in the east of Kenya. “My passengers are like my mothers, my brothers and sisters. “I just did what anyone else would have done to save…
LAGOS JANUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)- “I almost died with my three children after taking ‘agbo’ meant to treat malaria and typhoid fevers. My children vomited and went pale. Their skins turned black,” says Dr. Chinemerum Okafor. This young doctor was reacting to a situation that would have led to the death of her children and, perhaps,…
LAGOS JANUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari is due to complete his second and final four-year term in 2023 and the battle over who will succeed him is already heating up, placing further pressure on an already strained economy. Buhari has thus far shied away from endorsing his deputy, Yemi Osinbajo, for the position, twice…
By Young Erhuirhobo LAGOS DECEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Democracy is adjudged as the best type of government in every part of the world because it is more acceptable, accessible and available to the common populace in a country. Nigeria as a country has tried this type of government for number of types immediately after independence in 1960…
LAGOS DECEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s government is reviving old habits from its authoritarian past to stifle criticism. Evoking memories of Nigeria’s three decades of military rule, the repression risks undoing progress Africa’s top oil producer has made since the restoration of multiparty democracy in 1999. Governance and other reforms have helped more than double average annual…
By Young Erhiurhoro LAGOS DECEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The above subject is timely as the menance of oil bunkering activities has become unbearable for the people of the Niger-Delta region and uncontrollable by the federal government of Nigeria in recent times. Without missing words, the discovery of oil in the Niger-Delta region is more or less a…
LAGOS DECEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Worldwide condemnation has trailed Nigeria’s government the violent re-arrest of journalist and activist, Omoyele Sowore, on Friday (Dec. 6). It came less than 24 hours after Sowore and his co-accused, Olawale Bakare, were freed after 125 days in detention during which two courts had granted them bail. Government agents stormed the Federal…
LAGOS DECEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Page after page, the names stack up: 629 girls and women from across Pakistan who were sold as brides to Chinese men and taken to China. The list, obtained by The Associated Press, was compiled by Pakistani investigators determined to break up trafficking networks exploiting the country’s poor and vulnerable. The list…