LAGOS FEBRUARY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Since Kenya’s William Ruto and Nigeria’s Bola Tinubu became presidents, they have faced similar criticism over their frequent trips abroad. The two men have been the subject of unflattering descriptions – the costs associated with their alleged penchant for air travel often contrasted with tough economic conditions at home. A Kenyan newspaper,…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Lagos lawyer and human right activist, Chief (Barr.)Malcolm Omirhobo has reacted to the statement of Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar on the precarious situation of insecurity and hunger in the country stressing that when the revolution the monarch foresaw, if not averted would consume all Nigeria leaders and not just…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s Federal Government and the 36 states on Thursday agreed on the need to establish state police to curtail issues bordering on insecurity across the country. This was the highlight of the meeting between President Bola Tinubu and the 36 state governors under the aegis of the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) at…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, has asked President Bola Tinubu to declare a state of emergency on the issue of insecurity in the country. NBA, which is the umbrella body of legal practitioners in the country, in a state of the nation address it presented in Abuja on Wednesday, maintained that “what…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Amnesty International has said critics of President Bola Tinubu risk three-year jail term even as it condemns a fresh push for social media regulation by the All Progressives Congress- led government. Explaining the implications of social media regulations in a series of tweets on Saturday, the human rights organisation said, “the social…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)- President Bola Tinubu, on Thursday, at a book launch in Eko Hotel, Lagos, described social media as a menace that must be regulated. Speaking on Thursday at the presentation of “National Public Discourse: the interplay between empirical evidence and hyperbole,” a book by Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN, Tinubu said there…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 8TH 9NEWSRANGERS)-Amid the insecurity challenges confronting Nigerians, the 2023 Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has said the Presidency of former Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Umaru Musa Yar’Adua can’t be compared to that of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan and President Bola Tinubu. Obi said state governors were in charge of security in their…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has given President Bola Tinubu a 14-day ultimatum to implement concrete measures to tackle the rising cost of living crisis in the country. The students’ body which lamented the hardships faced by Nigerians warned that failure to come out with implementable policies that would address…
