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Why Has Soyinka Ignored INEC, Yakubu And Focus On Datti Ahmed

By Dr. Ugoji Egbujo Why has Soyinka ignored INEC and Yakubu to focus on Datti Ahmed, who reacted to Mahoomd’s bizarre handling of the presidential elections and suspiciously hasty collation of results? Wole Soyinka is my idol. Besides his illuminating literary works, he has been the embodiment of hope through the dark ages of oppressive and crassly […]

Apr 8 2023 | Posted in Features,National | Read More »

Four Biggest Losers Of 2023 Nigerian General Elections

By Michael Owhoko, Ph.D LAGOS APRIL 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Real losers of 2023 Nigerian general elections are not the electoratewho were deprived of their rights to freely choose candidates of their choice nor the first-timer youth whowere disappointed by the Nigerian state nor the candidates who lost or won as declared by the Independent National […]

Apr 4 2023 | Posted in Features,National | Read More »

Uncertainty In Tinubu’s Camp Over President-Elect’s Whereabouts, Health Condition

LAGOS MARCH 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-About a month after the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announced candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, as winner of the February 25 presidential election, the whereabouts and health condition of the President-elect has continued to generate ripples within his political circle. Although the media managers of […]

Mar 29 2023 | Posted in Features,National | Read More »

Can Nigeria’s Presidential Election Result Be Overturned?

LAGOS MARCH 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Opposition parties in Nigeria’s fiercely contested polls will attempt to do what has been described as the impossible – getting a court to overturn the outcome of a presidential election in Africa’s most populous nation. Peter Obi and Atiku Abubakar, the second and third-placed candidates in the tightest presidential election since the […]

Mar 4 2023 | Posted in Features,National | Read More »

The Controversy Surrounding Nigeria’s Presidential Election, Explained

LAGOS MARCH 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Chioma Agwuegbo was one of tens of thousands of young Nigerians who took to the streets in October 2020 to demand an end to police brutality in Nigeria. The mass movement, which became known as #EndSARS, called for the disbanding of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad after a video of a man getting […]

Mar 1 2023 | Posted in Features,National | Read More »

2023 Elections: Vote For Peace, Reject Violence

By Godman Akinlabi LAGOS FEBRUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In a matter of hours, Nigerians will head to the polls in what seems like the most polarising election the country has ever had. Ethnic and religious fault lines have come to the fore again, threatening to snap the thin thread that holds Nigeria together delicately. In a frantic […]

Feb 24 2023 | Posted in Features,National | Read More »

Without Fuel, Cash, Fed Up Nigerians Head To Polls On Saturday

LAGOS FEBRUARY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-In Nigeria last year, 20 million children did not go to school, the currency hit an all-time low, half of adults were under or unemployed, oil production — the lifeblood of the economy — fell to a 40-year low, and gangs of heavily armed bandits had free reign over large swathes of […]

Feb 23 2023 | Posted in Features,NASRDA | Read More »

Don’t Be Fooled: Tinubu Is APC And APC Is Tinubu

By ANTHONY ECHI Dear Nigerians, this election is not about Tinubu or Atiku or Obi. It is not about a Yoruba, Fulani or Igbo candidate. It is not about Easterners or Westerners or Northerners. No sir. It is about you and I. It is about the urgent need to fix systemic dysfunction brought about by […]

Feb 22 2023 | Posted in Features,National | Read More »

Analyzing Nigerian Election 2023

By Biodun Omojola LAGOS FEBRUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Not since the 1993 election, and, to a lesser degree, the 1999 election, have Nigerians and, indeed, the world been so fixated on any Nigerian election. Back in 1993, the major problem facing Africa’s biggest economy was how to get the military out of governance after having ruled for […]

Feb 22 2023 | Posted in Features,National | Read More »

Nigeria Election 2023: Has President Buhari Tackled Boko Haram Threat?

LAGOS FEBRUARY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-When Muhammadu Buhari was first elected Nigeria’s president eight years ago, it was on the promise that he would help put an end to the Boko Haram insurgency which has forced millions of people from their homes in the north-east and cost thousands of lives. Eight years on, the region appears safer, […]

Feb 18 2023 | Posted in Features,National | Read More »