LAGOS MAY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A court in Burkina Faso on Tuesday ordered ex-president Blaise Compaore and nine others to pay more than a million dollars in damages to relatives of revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara and aides who were assassinated in 1987. The order comes after a trial last month that sentenced the group to long jail…
LAGOS OCTOBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The federal government has threatened to declare a state of emergency in Anambra State if the incessant killings and rising insecurity in the state persists. This, it said, is to protect the sanctity of the scheduled November 6 governorship election in the state. The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice,…
LAGOS OCTOBER 1ST (NEWRANGERS)-The Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari and the 36 State governors in the country to rally and earnestly begin the process of correcting the ills in society. CAN President, Rev Samson Ayokunle, made the call in a message to mark Nigeria’s 61st Independence Day Anniversary in…
LAGOS JUNE 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, on Thursday, flayed the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), for asking the Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, to begin the process of recovering land from persons who have converted cattle grazing routes for their personal use. National Coordinator of HURIWA,…
LAGOS JUNE 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Igbo women under the aegis of Credible Igbo Women Initiative (CIWI) have distanced themselves from the activities of both known and unknown gunmen in South-East of Nigeria whose activities have created atmosphere of civil unrest in the region. The group who made the denial yesterday in a press conference held at Yaba,…
LAGOS MAY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Embittered by the unfortunate shooting and killing of four residents of Iseyin Town by men of the Nigerian Customs Service on Thursday, the Aseyin of Iseyinland, Oba (Dr.) Salaudeen Adekunle Ajinese and other stakeholders of the ancient community yesterday pronounced outright expulsion of the security operatives from the community. The monarch made…
LAGOS MAY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-With his country ensnared in mounting jihadist violence, bandit attacks and kidnappings, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari is under fire from allies and enemies alike for appearing incapable of tackling the security crisis. April saw an almost daily toll of bloody assaults and abductions in Africa’s most populous nation. In the past week…
LAGOS APRIL 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Following the killing of some people in Ishielu local government area of Ebonyi State, last week, suspected to be Fulani herdsmen, the South East leadership of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN), says the body has ordered with immediate effect, the relocation of all cattle breeders from Ebonyi State…