LAGOS JANUARY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Rights activist and Amnesty International designated Prisoner of Conscience, Omoyele Sowore, and other activists in Abuja who were carrying out a peaceful procession to mark the New Year have been arrested by Nigerian security forces. Eyewitnesses say policemen suspected to be with the Rapid Response Squad stormed Gudu junction in Abuja, wounding…
LAGOS DECEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Online publishers under the aegis of the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP) have bemoaned the death of their member, Mr Ben Bright-Mkpuma, publisher of Watchdog Reporters. Bright-Mkpuma, aged 52, died on Christmas Day in his sleep after battling kidney failure for five years. He was certified dead at Zenith Medical Centre,…
LAGOS DECEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former governor of Zamfara State, Senator Ahmed Sani Yerima, has declared his intention to vie for Nigeria’s presidency on the platform of the All Progressives Congress in 2023. He said this at a media briefing in Abuja on Wednesday. According to him, he had on three occasions stepped down to enable…
LAGOS DECEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian, Kingsley Adendu Elechi, who had spent the last 13 years in Brazil, flew into the country on Monday to prepare for his wedding scheduled for January. But he will no longer be able to prepare or even attend the wedding, as he was arrested at the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport. Elechi,…
LAGOS DECEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The former National Vice-Chairman (South-South), All Progressives Congress, Hilliard Eta, has rejected his expulsion by the National Executive Committee of the party, which met at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Tuesday. He described the Mai Mala Buni-led Caretaker/Extraordinary National Convention Planning Committee as an illegal contraption, which had no constitutional powers to…
LAGOS DECEMBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-EndSARS protesters are currently protesting in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, as well as Akure, the capital of Ondo state. The youths in Akure marched and drove in convoy through the streets of Akure to the State House of Assembly, demanding an audience with the leadership of the Assembly. The protesters. While in Abuja, the…
LAGOS DECEMBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Commercial activities have been paralyzed by tricycle operators, otherwise known as Keke riders in Kurudu area of Abuja over the increment in pump price of Premium Motor Spirit, otherwise known as petrol. The protesters, armed with various placards along the Nyanya Karshi road, are calling on the federal government to reduce the…
LAGOS DECEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former President Goodluck Jonathan seems to be undecided yet about returning to office in 2023 when President Muhammadu Buhari completes his second term. Speculations that the former president may take over power from President Buhari, who succeeded him in 2015, may not end soon as Dr Jonathan could not give a definite…