LAGOS MARCH 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Chatham House, an independent policy institute based in London, has stated in an analysis by one of its fellows that the February 25 presidential election showed that the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC failed to learn new lessons. The London-based institute stressed that the electoral umpire failed to adhere to its own…
LAGOS MARCH 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Some Twitter users, mostly Nigerians, trolled the President of war-ravaged Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, after he congratulated Nigeria’s President-elect, Bola Tinubu, for winning the February 25, 2023 presidential election. Zelensky in a tweet on Thursday, while congratulating Tinubu, had said his country was ready to work with Nigeria to overcome global challenges including…
LAGOS JANAURY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Presidential candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi has said it is the turn of Nigeria youths and women to take back Nigeria. He made the assertion during a recent visit to Akwa-Ibom (his wife country) for his campaign. Peter Obi while revealing his plans for Nigeria if elected president of Nigeria next…
LAGOS JANUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Former National Legal Adviser of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Muiz Banire, has criticised political leaders for holding meetings abroad “while pretending to be committed to the good of Nigeria”. POLITICS NIGERIA reports that as Nigerians groan under the nation’s severe economic crunch, their politicians, especially state governors and a few presidential…
LAGOS MAY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Transition Monitoring Group, TMG, has berated the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, for extending the deadline for the conduct of primary elections and submission of the list of nominated candidates for the 2023 general elections, from 4th to 9th of June 2022. Chairman of the foremost election monitoring group, Comrade Auwal…
LAGOS OCTOBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-London-based news magazine, The Economist, has described the government of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), as inept and high-handed, adding that he had also failed to tackle corruption. The 178-year-old magazine said this in an editorial titled, ‘The Crime Scene at the Heart of Africa,’ which was published in its…
LAGOS APRIL 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has come under fire on social media for not speaking against the extremist views of the embattled Communication Minister, Isa Pantami. Atiku Abubakar, who is renowned for always contributing on national issues has remained silent on Pantami’s radical preaching and ties with terrorist groups. Although the People’s…
LAGOS MARCH 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Catholic Pontiff, Pope Francis, has urged Christians in Nigeria to stop being sectional, and take the moral high ground. Pope Francis, who took a swipe at churches that had opposed the appointment of Most Revd. Peter Okpalaeke as Bishop on the basis of his dialect, urged Christian communities in the country to…