By Chief (Barr.) Malcolm Omirhobo LAGOS AUGUST 13TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-The Northern leaders accusations of the Igbos of playing a smart game by planning the nation wide hunger protest and then running inside their houses for the North and South West to destroy their region is not only mischievous but evil. Why mention the South East? What…
LAGOS AUGUST 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Labour Party Presidential Candidate in the 2023 general election, Peter Obi has expressed concerns at the growing tendency of some people to sow seeds of disunity in the country. Writing against the backdrop of some persons threatening genocide against the Igbo in Lagos, Obi said such divisive acts should be thoroughly…
LAGOS MARCH 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Justice Inyang Edem Ekwo of the Federal High Court in Abuja has struck out a suit instituted by a Coalition of Northern Groups seeking the exit of Igbos in the South East out of Nigeria. The suit by the group of elders and politicians from the North, led by Nastura Shariff, Balarabe…
By Jude Atupulazi LAGOS NOVEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-What gives the most pain to any individual is when they are not given their deserved respect, when they are treated as though they do not matter, even when they do. In Nigeria, the Igbo Nation has ever since the unfortunate civil war been treated as if it is…
LAGOS JULY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Kwara state police command has arrested one person after a free for all among sellers and buyers of Indian hemp in Ilorin. Tribune Online gathered that the two groups of suspected miscreants had engaged in a public disturbance last Tuesday over a disagreement on the cannabis Sativa. However, the state police command,…
LAGOS JUNE 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The President of Arewa Youth Consultative Forum, Alhaji Shettima Yerima has denied a statement credited to him that Igbo people from the Southeast geopolitical zone of Nigeria will never produce a president. Against this declaration, the social media later became awash with reports that Igbo will never be given the opportunity of…
LAGOS JANUARY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Dikoye Oyeyinka, 33, has been billed as one of the most promising Nigerian writers of his generation. He went to some of the finest schools in his West African homeland but says that like the majority of his classmates he “didn’t know about Biafra until I was 14”. When he did begin…
LAGOS OCTOBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Newly released data from the U.S. Census Bureau spotlights African languages among the top ten fastest growing languages spoken at home in the U.S. The list featured three groups of African languages: Swahili and other Central/Eastern/Southern African languages; Yoruba, Twi, Igbo, and other Western African languages; and Amharic/Somali. Analysts credit the development…