LAGOS AUGUST 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Senegalese commuters hoping to browse the news on their way to work were left disappointed on Tuesday – most national newspapers refused to publish in protest against what they see as shrinking media freedom under the new government. The media is experiencing “one of the darkest days of its history,” the local…
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Many waterways Transportation passengers are lamenting over the hike in transport fares by boat operators over the removal of fuel subsidy by the Federal Government. This is even as some passengers have been forced to move by road due to increasing cost of waterways Transportation. Speaking with the Nigerian Tribune exclusively, some…
LAGOS MAY 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A top-ranking member of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Rotimi Amaechi was conspicuously absent at the inauguration of former Lagos State Governor, Bola Tinubu as Nigeria’s 16th President on Monday at the Eagle Square in Abuja. However, Amaechi, a former Minister of Transportation and ex-governor of Rivers, was spotted at the…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Burkina Faso’s most famous revolutionary Thomas Sankara has been reburied in the capital by the military junta – despite his widow and children boycotting the funeral. Sankara was laid to rest at the spot where he was assassinated in 1987. His immediate family wanted the reburial at a site that would “appease…
LAGOS DECEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-After its sensational World Cup performance, Morocco’s national soccer team might boycott the African Nations Championship next month because of a diplomatic dispute with tournament host Algeria. The Moroccan Football Federation said its team will only compete if there is a direct flight from the Moroccan capital Rabat to the Algerian city…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Presidential Campaign Council of the All Progressives Congress, APC, says its flag bearer, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, will not honour the third edition of the presidential town hall meeting hosted by Arise Television. This was contained in a statement issued by Bayo Onanuga, Director, Media & Publicity, APC Presidential Campaign Council. The…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The meeting of the 21 former presidential aspirants of All Progressives Congress (APC), scheduled to hold in Abuja yesterday, could not hold despite series of pre-event publicity. The roundtable earlier slated for 2p.m. was for the aspirants to come up with strategies to support the APC standard bearer, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu,…
LAGOS OCTOBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Nurses in Eswatini are refusing to treat police officers as they accuse them of shooting colleagues during a pro-democracy rally on Wednesday. Protests in Africa’s last absolute monarchy, formerly known as Swaziland, have swept the country since June. Some internet services, such as Facebook, were temporarily shut down this week in response…