LAGOS APRIL 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Human rights lawyer and activist, Inibehe Effiong, has called on the Nigeria Police Force to pay ₦100 million in compensation to 17-year-old Alabi Quadri, who was wrongfully detained for months at the Kirikiri Correctional Facility on allegations of armed robbery. Quadri gained public attention in the lead-up to the 2023 general elections […]
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LAGOS DECEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Yoruba Nation activist, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, has called on President Bola Tinubu to intervene and restrain Vice President Kashim Shettima from further criticising Kemi Badenoch, the leader of the British Conservative Party. Igboho made this appeal in a statement obtained in Osogbo on Sunday, responding to Shettima’s […]
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LAGOS APRIL 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A group of climate change activists who deflated the tires of 43 gas guzzling SUVs in Boston’s Beacon Hill neighborhood last Wednesday night told Yahoo News that they think their aggressive action is necessary to draw attention to carbon emissions. “We’ve generated media coverage in the 17 countries we’ve been active in, […]
LAGOS JANUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A protest turned violent in downtown Atlanta on Saturday night in the wake of the death of an environmental activist who was killed by authorities this week after officials said the 26-year-old shot a state trooper. Masked activists dressed in all black threw rocks and lit fireworks in front of a skyscraper […]
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A civil rights activist and academic has sued Attorney General of the Federation, National Orientation Agency (NOA), national human rights commission and nine media outfits as fourth-twelve defendants before Federal High Court, Abuja for unsubstantiated ascription of bandits or terrorists attacks in various parts of the country to people of Fulani extraction. […]
Sep 30 2022 | Posted in
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LAGOS MARCH 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-National Association Of Northern Nigeria Students (NANNS) on Friday honoured Lagos Lawyer and Human Right Activists, Chief (Barr.) Malcolm Omirhobo with the excellence of Ahmadu Bello Sardauna Platinum award, “Icon Of Hope/Humanitarian Services”. The award was presented to him at Abuja on Friday was in recognition of his pursuit of human […]
Mar 7 2022 | Posted in
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LAGOS JULY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Worried by the rising cases of armed violence and kidnapping in Nigeria, a human rights lawyer, Chief Malcom Omirhobo, has written an application to President Muhammadu Buhari, requesting for licence to possess a 6.147 premium AK47 assault riffle to defend himself. The lawyer, in the application dated July 8, 2021, said he […]
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LAGOS DECEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Saudi court has sentenced a prominent women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul to five years and eight months in prison. That’s according to local media that said Hathloul was charged with seeking to change the Saudi political system and harming national security. The trial has drawn international condemnation and poses an early […]
LAGOS JANUARY 2TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Lagos lawyer and human rights activist, Chief Malcolm Omirhobo has filed a suit before a Federal High Court, Abuja praying for the disbandment of Christian and Muslim commissions in Nigeria and declaring them illegal. The suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/ is between Omirhobo and five defendants.The plaintiff is calling for the interpretation and/or […]
Jan 28 2020 | Posted in
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LAGOS JANUARY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Lagos socio critic and human rights activist, Chief (Barr) Malcolm Emokinovo Omirhobo on Friday filed a suit before a Federal High Court in Lagos, challenging the declaration as illegal, of opeartion of Amotekun in the western states of Nigeria. In his suit, the plaintiff joined the following defendants; The President of Nigeria, […]
Jan 17 2020 | Posted in
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