LAGOS DECEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Hundreds of passengers are facing Christmas travel chaos as 90 flights from Heathrow Airport are cancelled and 200 more delayed amid weather warnings for strong wind. A Heathrow spokesperson said ‘a small number of flights’ have been cancelled on Saturday due to ‘strong winds and airspace restrictions’. They added: ‘This will ensure…
LAGOS OCTOBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Confederation of African Football, CAF, has asked the Libyan Football Federation, LFF, to submit documents relating to the cancellation of the 2025 AFCON qualifying Group D fixture against Nigeria. The Super Eagles pulled out of the game which was scheduled for October 15, after their plane was diverted to Labraq Airport…
LAGOS MARCH 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, on Tuesday received a letter from Nigerian youths asking it to prevail on the federal government to nullify the February 25 presidential election. The youth group had stormed the ECOWAS headquarters in Abuja to protest the manner in which the Independent National Electoral Commission,…
LAGOS MARCH 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The pan Yoruba socio-political Organisation, Afenifere, in Lagos State, has called for the cancellation of the governorship and House of Assembly elections held in the state saying the exercise was fraught with irregularities. Afenifere, in a statement by its Lagos State leader and chairman, Chief Supo Shonibare, and Otunba Tunde Onakoya, said…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has called for the voiding of election results where the BVAS and Servers were manipulated or rendered inactive. In a statement Monday evening, Obasanjo said results that were brought outside BVAS and Server were not true reflection of the will of Nigerians who had made their individual choice….
LAGOS JUNE 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A human rights lawyer, Chief Malcolm Omirhobo, has sued the National Population Commission (NPC) and two others at the Federal High Court, Lagos, challenging its intention to conduct national population census on April 2023 amid insecurity, just a month after the general elections in February and March. The two other respondents joined…
LAGOS MAY 6TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-Lagos Lawyer and Human Right Activist, Chief (Barr) Malcolm Omirhobo has demanded for for the signing of petition from Nigerians for cancellation of National Identity Number (NIN) and the repeal of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC ) Act, 2007 because both have failed to fight crime and instead invaded the privacy…
LAGOS DECEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Pantami, has directed the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) to remove the N20 USSD fee imposed on subscribers for National Identification Number (NIN) retrieval requests. This directive came following the outrage across the country from subscribers who…