LAGOS AMY 2ND(EWSRANGERS)-Former President Goodluck Jonathan has arrived in Johannesburg, South Africa, along with election observers to monitor the South African national and provincial elections. This comes a year after Jonathan led observers to monitor elections in Sierra-Leone. A post on his Facebook page read, “I arrived in Johannesburg early this morning to lead the…
LAGOS MAY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A Dutch court said on Wednesday it has jurisdiction to hear a damages suit brought against Royal Dutch Shell by four widows of activists executed by the Nigerian government in 1995. In a preliminary decision, judges at the Hague District Court said they would allow the suit to go forward, a rare…
LAGOS AMY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) has called for an end to exploitation of journalists through casualisation of their employment by some media organisations. ”This type of employment is promoting compromises in the journalism profession for financial gratifications,” Mr Paul Jatau, the Chairman of NUJ, Plateau Council, told the News Agency of…
LAGOS May 1st (newsrangers)-As the world celebrates this year’s May Day, Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Peter Obi, has commended Nigerian workers for their commitment, saying that it is their labour that keeps Nigeria going. Speaking to airport correspondents on Tuesday at the Domestic wing of the Murtala Muhammed International…
LAGOS APRIL 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government has secured the release of a Nigerian student, Zainab Habibu Aliyu, who was detained in Saudi Arabia on suspicion of drug trafficking. This was disclosed by President Muhammadu Buhari’s Personal Assistant on New Media, Bashir Ahmad, in a tweet on Tuesday. According to Ahmad, “The Federal Government has secured…
LAGOS APRIL 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 5 persons have been crushed to death after a train rammed into a tricycle at Iju Ishaga, Lagos state, on Tuesday morning, April 30th. According to eyewitnesses, the driver of the Tricycle tried to cross the rail track when the accident happened. The tricycle was said to be going…
LAGOS APRIL 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Donald Trump is proposing charging asylum seekers a fee to process their applications as he continues to try to crack down on the surge of Central American migrants seeking to cross into the U.S. In a presidential memorandum signed Monday, Trump directed his attorney general and acting homeland security secretary to…
LAGOS APRIL 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Report has emerged that a 100 Level Chemical Engineering student of the University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State must have died of apparent suicide after a long-standing battle with depression. Hikmat Gbadamosi was found dead in her room, yesterday. According to her friend, the deceased had been battling a medical condition since…
