LAGOS MARCH 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)- Media Rights Agenda (MRA) will host a two-day sensitization and training workshop for lawyers from across Nigeria on March 5 and 6, 2019 to enhance their effectiveness in litigating Freedom of Information (FOI) and Freedom of Expression (FOE) cases on behalf of media organizations and journalists. It will take place in…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The United Kingdom has congratulated President Muhammadu Buhari on his victory at the presidential election. This is coming from the UK Minister of State for Africa, Harriett Baldwin, hours after the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared the President the winner of the keenly contested poll on Wednesday. She said, “I offer…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than one hundred and twenty people allegedly involved in various electoral offences during the February 23, 2019, presidential and National Assembly elections are cooling off in the different police cells accross the country. Force Public Relations Officers (PPRO), ACP Frank Mba, disclosed this yesterday in a live national radio programme,…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Youths celebrating President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election in Alaba Rago, a suburb of Lagos turned violent by unleashing mayhem on traders and residents of the area. Three persons were reported to have been killed and many others including policemen injured as a result of the violent. It was gathered that violence erupted at…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The prophecies of founder and General Overseer of the Synagogue Church of All Nations, SCOAN, Prophet TB Joshua, Father Ejike Mbaka, Prophet Omatsola and Bro. Joshua Iginla on the outcome of 2019 presidential election in Nigeria came to pass following Buhari’s victory in the keenly contested election. TB Joshua had during one…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has struck out the case seeking to disqualify President Muhammadu Buhari from the 2019 elections over circumstances surrounding his school certificate. A lawyer, Lezina Amegua, had prayed the court to compel the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to disqualify the President, but…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Large numbers of women from Imo women were reported to have now headed to 34 Artillery Brigade, Obinze, to protest against what they described as the involvement of the Army in the controversial declaration of governor Rochas Okorocha, as Imo west senator-elect. Vanguard report observed that the women are from the 12…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s dollar-denominated government bonds rose to 5-7 month highs on Wednesday after President Muhammadu Buhari won a second term at the helm of Africa’s largest economy and top oil producer. The country’s longer-dated bonds were up as much as 0.8 cents in the dollar to extend a more than 10 cents rally…
