LAGOS MAY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Hundreds of protesters partially blocked a highway into Nigeria’s capital Abuja on Monday after residents reported a spate of kidnappings in the area. Setting tyres on fire, a crowd barricaded a section of the Abuja-Kaduna highway in the Tafa area of Niger state, bordering the federal capital, an AFP journalist at the…
LAGOS MAY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Hundreds of Kaduna youths on Saturday blocked the entry and exit routes of the Kaduna-Abuja expressway to protest mass abductions and killings across the nation. The youths were said to have originated from Goni Gora village on the expressway where four persons were reportedly abducted on Saturday morning. The protest, which commenced…
LAGOS JANUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Twitter took the unprecedented step of removing three of President Trump’s tweets and locking his account for at least 12 hours following a day of chaos at the Capitol Building on Wednesday. Facebook also deleted a video posted by the president and blocked him from posting for 24 hours. The missives were sent after mayhem shut down Congressional proceedings…
LAGOS DECEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government to block SIM cards that are not synchronized with the National Identity Numbers, NIN. The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, gave telecommunications operators in the country two weeks to block SIM Cards that are not registered with the National Identity Numbers, NIN. This was made known in a statement by…
LAGOS APRIL 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Thousands of protesters on foot and in vehicles converged Wednesday on Michigan’s capital to rally against Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s stay-at-home orders in the state. “Operation Gridlock,” organized by the Michigan Conservative Coalition, created a huge bumper-to-bumper traffic jam around the Michigan Capitol Building in Lansing, Fox 2 Detroit reported. Meshawn Maddock, an…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS-No fewer than ten people were reported to have been killed assuspected Fulani herdsmen blocked Benin –Ore road for hours .Although the report was unofficial. Passengers have been left stranded and calling for help in a virile video circulated online. According to a voice over report in the footage circulating on social…