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Lies And Truth About Obi, Atiku, Tinubu

By Farooq A. Kperogi LAGOS SEPTEMBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ancient Greeks are credited with saying the truth is often the first casualty in war. I think in political campaigns, truth is also the first casualty, and we have started to see that already in the current election cycle in Nigeria. In this column, I highlight a few […]

Sep 25 2022 | Posted in Features,National | Read More »

Minimum Wage Gimmicks And Leadership Tailored Challenges

By Jerome-Mario Chijioke Utomi LAGOS SEPTEMBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-It may not be characterized as hasty to conclude that the president Muhammadu Buhari led Federal Government , after living in denial for a very long time, have finally come to terms with the fact that Nigerian workers have in the past seven to eight years faced unprecedented hardship […]

Sep 24 2022 | Posted in Features,National | Read More »

X-Raying Dikio’s Two Years Tenure As Presidential Amnesty Programme Boss

By Jerome-Mario Chijioke Utomi LAGOS SEPTEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-About two years ago, when President Muhammadu Buhari removed Professor Charles Dokubo (now late), as the interim Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, and in his place, appointed Mbiama, Ahoada West Local Government Area of Rivers State born Colonel Milland Dixon Dikio (rtd), stakeholders were happy for varying […]

Sep 13 2022 | Posted in Features,National | Read More »

Water Resources Bill: The Silence Of Our Traditional Rulers No Longer Golden

By Chief (Barr) Malcolm Omirhobo LAGOS SEPTEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-I have taken pains to profile the traditional rulers in Nigeria particularly those in the South South , South East , South West and North Central Zones of Nigeria affected by the water resources bill and I discover that they are all well lettered . By my […]

Sep 6 2022 | Posted in Features,National | Read More »

Water Resources Bill: Once Bitten Twice Shy, Niger Deltans Wake Up

By Chief (Barr) Malcolm Omirhobo LAGOS AUGUST 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-When I say Niger Deltans , I mean Nigerians indigenous to the Niger Delta region of Nigeria comprises nine states namely : Abia, Akwa-Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross River, Delta, Edo, Imo, Ondo and Rivers. The Niger Delta is one of the World’s most important wetland and coastal marine […]

Aug 28 2022 | Posted in Features,National | Read More »

ANCLA ‘Owambe’ Dance: My Observation

By Innocent Orok LAGOS AUGUST 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-First, I like to state that the job of a Journalist as the “Watch Dog of the Society” is to inform, educate and entertain the public, based on the writer’s proper interrogation of the issues on the ground with facts and balanced reporting in order not to misled or […]

Aug 28 2022 | Posted in Business,Features,National | Read More »

N4bn Monthly Pipeline Surveillance Contract To Tompolo: A Peanut In The Circumstance

By Chief (Barr.) Malcolm Omirhobo LAGOS AUGUST 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)- I have read with utmost dismay the resentment of the Amalgamated Arewa Youth Group over the N4bn monthly pipeline surveillance contract awarded to Government Ekpemupolo, aka Tompolo, by the Nigerian National Petroleum Limited, an amount which I consider a peanut in the circumstance . Today the […]

Aug 26 2022 | Posted in Features,National | Read More »

The Niger Delta Presidential Amnesty Programme Life Circle

By Jerome-Mario Chijioke Utomi LAGOS AUGUST 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-On 25 June 2009, President Umoru Yar’Adua (now late) granted presidential amnesty to Niger Delta militants who had directly or indirectly participated in the commission of offences associated with militant activities in the Niger Delta, and who were willing to surrender their weapons and renounce armed struggle […]

Aug 22 2022 | Posted in Features,National | Read More »

Throwback: The Peter Obi Movement Vs Nigeria’s Bullion Van Democracy

By Tony Okoroji LAGOS AUGUST 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-In May 2022, I served a piece in Saturday Breakfast titled “THE PETER OBI MOVEMENT vs NIGERIA’S BULLION VAN DEMOCRACY” It was just a few days after Peter Obi declared for the Labour Party. The “Obidient” movement which is becoming a historic development in Nigerian politics was just at […]

Aug 22 2022 | Posted in Features,National | Read More »

Inibehe Effiong’s Conviction: Judicial Misconduct By Hon Justice Ekaette Obot

By Chief (Barr.)-Malcolm Omirhobo LAGOS AUGUST 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The conviction of Inibehe Effiong on 27/ 7/2022 by Honourable Justice Ekaette Obot, the Chief Judge of Akwa Ibom State came to me as a surprise because both of us were at the Federal High court Abuja the previous day barely twenty four hours before . I did […]

Aug 6 2022 | Posted in Features,National | Read More »