By Kevin Bloom LAGOS FEBRUARY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In March 2009, less than two months before Jacob Zuma assumed office as the fourth President of post-apartheid South Africa, the Dalai Lama’s visa application to enter the country was denied. The Tibetan spiritual leader had been scheduled to attend a peace conference in Johannesburg, on the invitation of…
By Jerome-Mario Utomi LAGOS FEBRUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Truth, in the words of Thomas Aquinas, is the agreement of what is in the mind with what is on the lips. Considering this remark in relation to the truth as told by the former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo in his memo to President Buhari, and the ripple reactions…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former military President, General Ibrahim Babangida, fondly called the evil genius, the Maradona, IBB because of his cunning ways has started his antics again in Nigeria political arena. Within a timeline of four hours on Sunday, he issued a statement, disowned it and then reversed to embrace the initial statement. Babangida was…
LAGOS JANUARY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-My nephew, Ayodeji Tinubu, died while playing a sport he so loved from childhood. He had a zest for the game just as he also had a special zest for the game of life itself. He was a passionate player and teammate because he was a passionate and compassionate person. When he…
LAGOS JANUARY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS) – The president had found a cure for AIDS. That was the news that reached Ousman Sowe, the head of a Gambian AIDS support network, one day in 2007. He was overjoyed. “We all went with the hope that we were going to take a drop of some wonderful medication and…
By Bolaji Akanni LAGOS JANUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Things seem to be looking up and brighter this year in the often stormy relationship between the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and Federal Ministry of Power, Works and Housing -the “Infrastructure Ministry” , as some will call the three-in-one establishment, on which so much hope is…
LAGOS JANUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-– As the plot by the leadership of the National Assembly to ensure that President Muhammadu Buhari is defeated in the 2019 general elections thickens, the House of Representatives has amended the Electoral Act to change the order of elections as announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Buhari is yet…
LAGOS JANUARY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)The plot to possibly prevent President Muhamnadu Buhari from having an automatic ticket to contest the 2019 presidential election appears to be thickening by the day, as some prominent political figures of northern extraction have thrown their weights behind the South- West Caucus of the All Progressives Congress (APC), which recently demanded…