LAGOS AUGUST 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Some former members of the Islamist militia, Boko Haram, protested in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, on Friday alleging abandonment by the government. About 6,900 members of Boko Haram surrendered to the Nigerian authorities and renounced their membership of the terrorist organisation. The former terrorists, who are undergoing a deradicalisation and rehabilitation…
LAGOS MAY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister has warned of a food shortage as the island nation battles a devastating economic crisis and vowed the government will buy enough fertiliser for the next planting season to boost harvests. A decision in April last year by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to ban all chemical fertilisers drastically cut…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The closure of many markets across the North West is taking a heavy toll on bandits. At least four governors closed markets in their states as part of measures to check banditry. Few days after the closure of markets in some rural areas in Sokoto, bandits demanded food to release their captives….
LAGOS JULY 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Loyalists of Nigeria’s former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, have commenced the distribution of loaves of bread, branded ‘Atiku Kawai’ (Atiku Only) to Kano State residents. The development comes amid claims that Atiku is nursing a presidential ambition ahead of the 2023 elections, although he has not publicly confirmed it. The former Vice-President…
LAGOS MAY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Prostitutes in Dema Growth Point, Zimbabwe are reportedly now accepting buckets of maize and cups of beans as payment from their cash-strapped male clients. Some of the sex workers who spoke to New Zimbabwe, appealed to the government and other organisations for low-interest loans to start income-generating projects to fend for their starving families. One…
LAGOS MARCH 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-When Nigerian office worker Chigoziri Okeke bought cryptocurrency for the first time in 2016, he was only looking to make an online payment. But the 10 percent gain on his wallet’s balance after a few days fired up the 27-year-old’s interest. Now, the Lagos resident has more than $50,000 worth of different…
LAGOS MARH 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Samuel Perry, a comic-actor better known as Broda Shaggi, says poverty made him consider a career in entertainment. The comedian brought the revelation to light during a movie premiere in Lagos. Shaggi said he left his hometown in Ikenne, Ogun state for Lagos after the demise of his father to stay with…
LAGOS DECEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Tired, hungry and dazed – Nigeria’s freed schoolboys arrived back home on Friday (December 18), having been rescued from their captors. As they got off buses in the city of Katsina, many of them appeared to be barefoot and were wrapped in blankets after a week-long ordeal. Gunmen on motorbikes had raided…