LAGOS JANUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The 2023 Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has criticised the alleged non-payment of match allowances to Nigeria’s national football team, describing it as an embarrassment to the country. Obi expressed the concern in a post on X on Tuesday while reacting to reports that players of the Super Eagles were owed…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 14TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-Lamine Yamal’s father has blasted Ousmane Dembele’s Ballon d’Or win, saying the result was “not theft but rather moral damage to a human being”. Dembele scooped the biggest individual award in football for the first time in his career on Monday, becoming the sixth Frenchman to win the prize. He joined the…
LAGOS JUNE 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Human Right Lawyer, Chief (Barr.) Malcolm Omirhobo has faulted the Management of Delta State Maritime Polytechnic, Burutu, Delta State for restricting members of staff of the institution from opening WhatsApp group platforms among themselves. Recall that the Management of the institution in memo titled, “The Proliferation and Abuse of WhatsApp Platforms…
LAGOS MARCH 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Temitope Ajayi, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, has described former President Goodluck Jonathan and Professor Wole Soyinka’s comments on the emergency rule in Rivers State as personal opinions. President Bola Tinubu’s declaration of emergency rule in Rivers, with the suspension of Governor Siminalayi Fubara, his deputy,…
LAGOS JULY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Dr Akinwunmi Adesina, has raised concerns over the Federal Government’s plan to import food, stating that the policy is depressing. According to Nairametrics, he stated this during the Council of Anglican Provinces of Africa retreat held in Abuja on Saturday where he spoke on the…
LAGOS JULY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Professor Kingsley Moghalu, has said the removal of fuel subsidy and devaluation of naira by President Bola Tinubu were right policies wrongly implemented. The Professor of Political Economics said both the petrol (fuel) subsidy and defence of naira by the previous administration…
LAGOS JUNE 28TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-Lagos lawyer and human right activist, Chief (Barr) Malcolm Omirhobo has faulted President Bola Tinubu approval of N50,000 uplift grants for 3.6m Nigerian families. Recalled that President Bola Tinubu has approved an uplift grant under the National Construction and Household Support Programme for 3.6m Nigerian families. The initiative according to Presidential spokesman…
LAGOS JUNE 8TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-Lagos lawyer and human right activities, Chief (Barr) Malcolm Omirhobo has faulted the claim by Nigeria Governors Forum of not being able to pay N60,000 minimum wage. He recommend that state governments that cannot sustain the N60,000.00 .00 minimum wage should be merged with other capable states because it is absolutely wrong…