LAGOS JULY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Students of tertiary institutions across the country and a cross section of other Nigerians have expressed concern over the rising cost of food and the attendant suffering. This, according to the students who spoke with Saturday Tribune is having adverse effects on their academic performance as the hardship has gone beyond what…
LAGOS JULY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Yerima Shettima, the head of the Arewa Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF), said, “The economic situation is bad, with Nigerians struggling to live as prices keep rising. Many people have lost their jobs, businesses are closing, and Nigerians have less money to spend.” As reported by the Daily Post, Comrade Danjuma Paul, the…
LAGOS JULY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There is a booming frog meat market currently going on in the Kaduna, in Northern part of the country where cartons of prepared frogs meats are packaged and sent from Nigeria to neighbouring states and outside the country. The booming trade is attributed to increased consumption of frog meat in the country…
LAGOS JUNE 29TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-The United Nations humanitarian agency is struggling to secure funding to combat severe food insecurity in Nigeria’s insurgency-hit northeast, raising fears of mass hunger and deaths, its resident coordinator warned. In April, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) launched a $306 million appeal alongside Nigeria on behalf…
LAGOS JUNE 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A coalition of Nigerian civil societies has announced a mass protest scheduled for Wednesday, June 12, to decry the hardship and hunger under the President Bola Tinubu-led government. POLITICS NIGERIA reports that the participating groups include the Take-It-Back Movement (TIB), African Action Congress party (AAC), Joint Action Front (JAF), Education Rights Campaign…
By Dan Onwukwe LAGOS MAY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-This much is plain truth: Every government in power is judged by the success or failure of the promises it made prior to, and on assumption of office. During the presidential campaigns last year, Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the All Progressives Congress candidate made scores of promises to Nigerians…
LAGOS MARCH 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Truck drivers in the country have threatened to embark on strike following attacks on their vehicles by hoodlums. Several trucks and warehouses have recently come under attack from hoodlums as the food inflation and the cost of living crisis in the country spiraled. Worried by the unsavory development, the organised private…
LAGOS MARCH 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A member of the United Nations Independent International Fact-Finding Mission for Sudan, Prof. Joy Ezeilo, has lamented that severe hunger and extreme poverty faced by many poor and vulnerable Nigerians are pushing people to criminal activities. Ezeilo, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria and a Law Professor at the University of Nigeria stated…
