LAGOS NOVEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A boat conveying journalists across flooded parts of Sampou community on Nun River in Kolokuma Opokuma Local Government Area of Bayelsa State capsized and threw the four occupants into the water. News Agency of Nigeria reports that the boat was carrying four journalists covering the governorship elections, including its correspondent. The journalists…
LAGOS OCTOBER 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Friday manhandled journalists at its head office in Abuja while a group of activists, including the convener of Concerned Nigerians, Deji Adeyanju, was submitting a petition addressed to the Chairman of the commission, Ibrahim Magu. The activists had gone to submit a petition…
LAGOS AUGUST 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Group under the aegis of Malcolm Omirhobo Foundation has condemned in strong term the Nigeria government attack on the media which suppose to the voice of the oppressed masses in the country. The Foundation is equally disturbed at the government wanton violation of the fundamental rights of Nigerians to move freely, associate…
LAGOS MAY 22ND (NEWRANGERS)-The President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, has disowned the management of the National Assembly led by the Clerk, Mohammed Sani-Omolori, over the stringent conditions imposed on journalists seeking to cover the activities of the Ninth Assembly. Saraki, in a statement on Tuesday by his Special Assistant on New Media, Olu Onemola,…