LAGOS OCTOBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-WHAT kind of President is Muhammadu Buhari? In moments of national crisis, he abandons his duty post in preference for foreign trips of dubious value. Showing scant interest in domestic affairs, the President has embarked on another international trip, this time, to Sochi, Russia, for a three-day summit on gas and trade….
LAGOS OCTOBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Peter Obi, has called for the improvement in infrastructure in the country to reduce the suffering of Nigerians even when it is totally avoidable. Obi was speaking to journalists in Lagos on Monday. The former Anambra State Governor, who spoke extensively on…
Man LAGOS SEPTEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A religious celebration was marred by tragedy this week as a man participating in a traditional Islamic mourning ritual accidentally beheaded himself. Mohammed Sayum was displaying his prowess at swordsmanship in the Nalanda district of Bihar, in east India, as part of a ritual procession known as the Mourning of Muharram….
LAGOS AUGUST 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), the lawyer to the leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, Ibraheem Elzakzaky, on Wednesday, described as worrisome the tense security situation put up by Nigerian forces around the Indian hospital where the cleric and his wife, Zeenat, had travelled for treatment. He, however, said that the situation…
LAGOS AUGUST 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government has accused leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, of “becoming uncontrollable” in India. The Shi’ites leader is currently in India for medical treatment, based on a court order. The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Information and Culture, Grace Gekpe, alleged this in a statement made available…
LAGOS AUGUST 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Facts have just emerged that the Leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky has refused treatment from unknown doctors put in place to treat him in India aside those billed and booked to treat him before his departure from Nigeria. A member of the Islamic Human Rights Commission…
LAGOS AUGUST 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, Ibraheem El-Zakzaky, has now departed Nigeria for India where he will be receiving medical treatment. He travelled in company with his wife, Zeenat, and other family members amidst tight security on Monday evening. The IMN leader has been in detention for over two years despite…
LAGOS AUGUST 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Kaduna State Government has filed at the Kaduna High Court “terms for strict supervision of the medical leave” granted an Islamic cleric, Ibrahim El-Zakzaky and his wife Zeenah Mr El-Zakzaky and his wife were granted leave to travel to India by a Kaduna high court after their lawyers proved his health…