LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Ugandan court has ordered security forces to cease surrounding the home of opposition leader Bobi Wine, whose house arrest since a mid-month presidential election has drawn international pressure, his lawyer said on Monday. Troops have blocked the 38-year-old pop star-turned-politician from leaving his house in a suburb of the capital Kampala…
LAGOS JUNE 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Barely 24 hours after the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos ordered his release, Senate Chief Whip, and former Abia State governor, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, has regained freedom after six months incarceration. He stepped out of Kuje Correctional Centre this evening after the completion of his release formalities. The court had…
LAGOS DECEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Omoyele Sowore, the convener of #RevolutionNow and publisher of Sahara Reporters has eventually regained his freedom, 125 days after being detained by the Department of State Services (DSS), Also set free is Olawale Adebayo Bakare (aka Mandate) who was arrested in Osun State during a #RevolutionNow protest. Both released on bail are…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 900 city jailbirds could be celebrating Christmas early courtesy of Gov. Andrew Cuomo and a plan to quietly free them before the state’s bail-reform law goes into effect next year, The Post has learned. And if that weren’t enough of a gift, Mayor Bill de Blasio is promising to…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-With her eyes swollen in tears, Beauty Uguoere Siasia, the mother of a former Super Eagles skipper and coach, Samson Siasia broke down and cried. “I don’t know why they keep kidnapping me. Only God knows,” the 80-year-old woman sobbed on Sunday as tears dripped down her wrinkled face. Mama, as she…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Abducted mother of former Nigeria coach and player, Samson Siasia, has been released after almost three months in captivity, The Nation has reported. Mrs Ogere Siasia and two others were seized in Odoni, Sagbama Local Government Area of Bayelsa State in July. This is the second time in four years that the…
LAGOS JULY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Group under the aegis of Malcolm Omirhobo Foundation has stated that the right to freedom of movement enshrined in the Nigerian constitution which Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore is relying on to ask the Fulani herdsmen to stay where ever they are in Nigeria to defend themselves as well as fight for their…
LAGOS JULY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The District Head of Daura and Father- in law to President Buhari’s ADC, Alhaji Musa Umar-Uba, who was kidnapped from his residence four months ago, has been rescued by security agents in Kano. Malam Tukur Umar, younger brother to the victim, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Daura on Tuesday that…