LAGOS OCTOBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Repentant Boko Haram members who are currently undergoing rehabilitation and reintegration process at Hajj camp along Maiduguri-Damaturu expressway in Borno State on Thursday, occupied the major road in protest of hunger and hardship in the camp Our correspondent gathered from eyewitnesses that the ex-fighters occupied the road at the front of the…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Armed bandits have blocked the ever-busy Zaria Gusau – Funtua highway, kidnapping unspecified number of travelers. For nearly two hours,passengers were unable to cross Tazane, as bandits took control of the busy Zaria-Gusau highway Speaking, one of the stranded passengers, Yusuf Tsafe, narrated how the bandits stormed the highway in the early…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s lower chamber of parliament has rejected the government’s plan to buy a presidential yacht for $6m (£5m), a senior lawmaker has said. Nigerians had criticised the plan as a waste of money on luxuries during an economic crisis. Lawmakers instead moved the $6m to the student loan budget, doubling its allocation,…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-President Bola Tinubu has filed an emergency application seeking a review of the judgement that ordered the release of his academic records to Atiku Abubakar. Judge Jeffrey Gilbert of the United States District Court had on September 19 ordered Chicago State University to release Mr Tinubu’s records to his Nigerian political opponent…
LAGOS MAY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Presidential candidate of Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has told the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has refused to produce 70 per cent of the electoral documents he requested to facilitate the prosecution of his petition. Obi, who came third in the February 25 presidential…
LAGOS MAY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A civil society organization, Advocacy for Societal Rights Advancement and Development Initiative (ASRADI), has lodged a lawsuit with a Federal High Court in Abuja, seeking to prevent the planned inauguration of Bola Tinubu as the President of Nigeria. POLITICS NIGERIA reports that the suit, labelled FHC/ABJ/CS/669/2023, accuses Tinubu of perjury due to…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Veteran activist, Charly Boy has revealed that Nigeria’s former president, Olusegun Obasanjo reportedly stopped 1.5 million citizens of Chad from gaining access into the country in order to participate in Saturday’s presidential election. Charly Boy made the revelation on his Instagram page. According to Charly Boy, the Nigerian elder statesman received a…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday dismissed a bid by a factional group in the Action Alliance (AA) party to stop the certificate forgery suit instituted against the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu. The bid by the group loyal to Tinubu and led by…
