LAGOS JUNE 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The 2023 Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Obi has said the last general election showed that Yorubas don’t hate Igbos. This was as Obi noted that the election was not a Christian or Igbo agenda. Obi said the 2023 general election saw Nigerians unite across tribe and religious lines, adding that…
LAGOS MARCH 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has warned that those behind attacks on Igbo in Lagos will soon regret their action. IPOB gave the warning on Thursday in a statement issued by its media and publicity secretary, Emma Powerful. It was gathered that IPOB’s reaction followed the recent initimdation of the Igbo…
LAGOS MARCH 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Igbos living in a riverine area of Lagos were allegedly instructed not to vote in the elections for Lagos State, and the source who gave them this instruction claimed to have gotten the order from above, according to Vanguard Newspaper. Igbo traditional ruler Eze Chinedu Mozie was denied voting rights on…
By Nwoba Chika Nwoba LAGOS JUNE 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ebonyi State had 39 delegates in the APC presidential primary election that just ended. Out of that figure, Engr David Umahi got 38 votes; Dr Ogbonnaya Onu got 1 vote making it 39. Imo had over 100 delegates. Rochas Okorocha got zero. Emeka Nwajiuba got only 1 vote….
By Ena Ofugara LAGOS JUNE 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Whatever your father told you the Igbo man did, true or false, Please, let it go. Zik did this to Awo. Awo did that to Ojukwu. Nzeribe did so and so to Abiola. Please, let us bury this hatchet. The only time we remember who is Igbo and who…
LAGOS OCTOBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Rocking back and forth, Shlomo Ben Yaakov reads from a Torah scroll at a synagogue on the outskirts of Nigeria’s capital, Abuja. Intermittently his soft mellow voice rises in Hebrew and he is joined by the dozens who recite after him. Most do not fully understand the language, but this small Nigerian…
By Jeffery Orji LAGOS MARCH 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The name Biafra remains golden in Nigeria no matter how it sound to the ear. Irrespective all they have contributed to the progress Nigeria, they have always being meted with the highest level of crudeness. History will continue to remember the severity of wound inflicted upon them by the…
LAGOS OCTOBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President General of Ohanaeze Worldwide, Chief Nnia Nwodo, has said that the Igbos have no regrets supporting the Atiku Abubakar/Peter Obi ticket in the last presidential election. Nwodo, in an interview with journalists in Enugu, said the preponderance of views in Southern Nigeria, was the need to restructure the country. He said…