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…
By Tony Olutomiwa LAGOS JANURY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-It was the Scottish writer, Thomas Carlyle, who famously stated that the history of the world is but the biography of great men, reflecting his belief that heroes shape history through both their personal attributes and divine inspiration. But Carlyle had only popularized The great man theory, an idea…
By Emmanuel Ogebe LAGOS JANUARY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Long before I arrived in the United States in 1997 on political asylum, I’d heard the apocryphal story of the visiting African who was asked by an American whether it was “true that Africans live on trees?” The well-educated and well-spoken African responded: “Yes, it is true, and the…
LAGOS JANUARY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-I read one of President Muhammadu Buhari’s ministers say that his boss is poised to seek re-election in 2019. Before his poorly-packaged, unsolicited public service announcement, there were media reports that former Rivers governor and current minister of Transport, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, had been quietly reappointed as Director-General of Buhari’s presidential (re-election)…