LAGOS DECEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Financial Times has reported that Nigeria is at risk of becoming a failed state. According to an editorial published earlier on Tuesday, the UK-based newspaper said the spate of insecurity in the country shows that the Nigerian “the government is no longer in control.” With over 200 million people, Financial Times…
LAGOS DECEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-IF anyone still doubted that criminals have overrun parts of Nigeria, the audacious bandits that stormed Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State, on December 11 and ferried away over 300 boys erased all such illusion. The kidnapping was spectacular in itself; the fact that the terrorists struck in a town a…
LAGOS DECEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former President Goodluck Jonathan seems to be undecided yet about returning to office in 2023 when President Muhammadu Buhari completes his second term. Speculations that the former president may take over power from President Buhari, who succeeded him in 2015, may not end soon as Dr Jonathan could not give a definite…
LAGOS DECEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The senate has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to sack the ”overstayed” service chiefs. The resolution of the upper legislative chamber followed a motion sponsored by Kashim Shettima, senator representing Borno central. The request by the lawmakers is coming six months after they asked the service chiefs to resign. Gabriel Olonisakin, chief of…
LAGOS DECEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to President Buhari has said that the clamor for the sacking of service chiefs is ‘out of place’. Shehu said this when he appeared on Arise TV news on Monday night, November 30. According to Shehu, the president has the prerogative to appoint or…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The General Overseer of Omega Fire Ministry, Apostle Johnson Suleman has decided to speak. This time around, he decided to drag the Sultan of Sokoto over his recent comment regarding the rate of insecurity in the Northern part of the country. It should be recalled that the Sultan of Sokoto recently said…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Following incessant kidnappings in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and other parts of the country, a group of Information Communications Technology experts on Wednesday introduced devices that can help in tracing victims. One of the experts, Tony Nwulu disclosed this in Abuja during the public presentation of PrimeAlert Lifesaver security and safety…
LAGOS OCTOBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Members of the #RevolutionNow Group on Thursday protested at the United States Embassy in Abuja over the security and socio-economic situation in the country. They demanded the resignation of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), over insecurity, hunger, and corruption in the country. The campaigners led by the convener of the…
