LAGOS AUGUST 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Office of the National Security Adviser (NSA) and heads of security agencies have directed the Nigerian Immigration Services (NIS) to arrest human rights activist and former presidential candidate of African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, and other ‘sponsors’ of nationwide #EndBadGovernance protest placed on watch-list. Although the Comptroller General of NIS,…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Five days to the general election, a group made up of former presidential candidates and 24 former national chairmen of political parties in Nigeria, have pledged their commitment to work with the candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi and his running mate, Datti Baba-Ahmed. The group under the aegis of the…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An Algiers court on Thursday sentenced a former presidential candidate and retired general to four years in prison for undermining army morale, the official APS news agency reported. Ali Ghediri had said he would stand in Algeria’s April 2019 election against longtime president Abdelaziz Bouteflika. The ailing autocrat’s decision to seek a…