LAGOS DECEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday called for a thorough investigation into a military drone attack that the state emergency agency in northern Kaduna state said killed at least 85 people at the weekend. The state’s governor, a religious leader and witnesses told Reuters on Monday that dozens of civilians were killed…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-France’s Foreign Ministry said Tuesday that a French official has been arrested in military-run Niger, and called for the junta to immediately release him. Military officers in Niger deposed elected President Mohamed Bazoum in July and last month ordered French officials to leave the country — an order that France has refused…
LAGOS AUGUST 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Commonwealth Women’s Affairs Ministers Meeting opened yesterday in The Bahamas with a call for stronger action on gender equality priorities in the face of intensifying global environmental and economic challenges. Against the backdrop of a recent United Nations report projecting that achieving gender equality, at the current pace, may take 300…
LAGOS AUGUST 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeriens are preparing for a possible invasion by countries in the region, three weeks after mutinous soldiers ousted the nation’s democratically elected president. Residents in the capital, Niamey, are calling for the mass recruitment of volunteers to assist the army in the face of a growing threat by the West African regional…
LAGOS AUGUST 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Tanzanian authorities must immediately and unconditionally release Willibrod Slaa, former parliamentarian and Tanzanian Ambassador to Sweden, Boniface Mwabukusi, a lawyer and activist, and Mdude Nyagali, a political activist, all of whom were arrested between 12 and 13 August simply for criticizing a port deal between Tanzania and the United Arab Emirates…
LAGOS AUGUST 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday called for the immediate release of Niger’s democratically elected head-of-state amid an apparent coup there. Biden released the statement on the 63rd anniversary of Niger’s independence from its former colonial ruler, warning that the West African nation is now “facing a grave challenge to its democracy.”…
LAGOS AUGUST 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Presidential Election Petitions Court (PEPC) in Abuja has called on citizens to put the country in their prayers ahead of its final judgment in different petitions challenging President Bola Ahmed’s electoral victory. The PEPC made the call after reserving its judgement in the petition filed by the presidential candidate of the…
LAGOS JULY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Director General of the Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council, Akin Osuntokun, has called for the immediate dismissal and prosecution of the National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, over the role he played in the 2023 presidential elections. Osuntokun also demanded that a forensic financial investigation be conducted…