LAGOS JANUARY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s leader said Tuesday that his government will embark on “massive education” of youth as one way to tackle the increasing kidnappings for ransom now threatening the capital city along with the rest of the country’s conflict-hit north. President Bola Tinubu won last year’s election after promising to rid the West African…
LAGOS JULY 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-African leaders pressed Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday to move ahead with their plan to end the Ukraine conflict and to renew a deal crucial to Africa on the safe wartime export of Ukrainian grain, which Moscow tore up last week. While not directly critical of Russia, their interventions on the…
LAGOS DECEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Department of State Services (DSS) has given a 48-hour ultimatum to the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited and oil marketers to resolve the ongoing petrol distribution crisis. Peter Afunanya, DSS spokesperson, said this on Thursday after a meeting with stakeholders at the headquarters of the service. Afunanya said the secret…
LAGOS OCTOBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s Court of Appeal on Friday ordered public university lecturers to end their strike for better working conditions in the next seven days before it will hear their appeal against a ruling by a lower court. The lecturers, who have been striking since February, last month appealed a lower court ruling ordering…
LAGOS MAY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says its ongoing Continuous Voter Registration (CVR) will end on June 30. The INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, in his remarks at the Commission’s quarterly meeting with Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) on Wednesday in Abuja, said that the INEC would suspend online pre-registration by May 30….
LAGOS FEBRUARY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Niger Delta region erupted in anger at the weekend following calls from an Ijaw leader and President of the Ijaw Peoples Association (IPA) in Great Britain and Ireland, Francis Akpanari, to terminate the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP). Akpanari, who lives in the diaspora said in an interview: “I don’t think the…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s state-run oil company said it had started a 24-hour distribution of petrol to service stations to end a week-long scarcity that has caused traffic snarls in major cities. The fuel shortage which started last week in the commercial city of Lagos and administrative capital Abuja has caused long queues with few…
LAGOS OCTOBER 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Vice-Presidential candidate of the PDP in the 2019 elections, Mr. Peter Obi, has again appealed to the youth across the country, including the youth from the South-East, particularly those from Anambra State, to go off the streets in order not to allow their well thought-out protest which has been supported by…