LAGOS AUGUST 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The visit of President Muhammadu Buhari and Bola Tinubu to the United Kingdom for medical care amid the ongoing strike by the National Association Residents Doctors (NARD) has sparked outrage across the country. Resident doctors have been on strike for over 15 days in protest of government’s failure to respect agreements on…
LAGOS AUGUST 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari and members of his delegation to the United Kingdom are to go on isolation after spending about two weeks in London. This is coming after Ambassador Sarafa Tunji Isola, the UK High Commissioner who was seen in close contact with the President on his arrival at the Airport in…
LAGOS JULY 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Loyalists of Nigeria’s former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, have commenced the distribution of loaves of bread, branded ‘Atiku Kawai’ (Atiku Only) to Kano State residents. The development comes amid claims that Atiku is nursing a presidential ambition ahead of the 2023 elections, although he has not publicly confirmed it. The former Vice-President…
LAGOS JULY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), will leave Abuja today for London to see his doctors and participate in the Global Education Summit on Financing Global Partnership for Education 2021-2025. This was contained in a statement by the president’s media adviser, Femi Adesina, titled, ‘President Buhari attends global education summit in…
LAGOS JULY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Serving Overseer, Citadel Global Community Church, (formerly called The Latter Rain Assembly), Lagos, Pastor Tunde Bakare, on Sunday, dared an official of the regime of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to come after him if the government was offended by his recent pronouncements, which he said had become unsettling…
LAGOS JULY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerians refer to them as bandits – a word that does not quite do justice to what are in fact networks of sophisticated criminals who operate across large swathes of northern-western and central Nigeria. Gangs on motorbikes terrorise the region, stealing animals, kidnapping for ransom, killing anyone who dares confront them and…
LAGOS JULY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The children of the late Alhaja Kudirat Abiola have urged the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), to intervene in the protracted feud between them and some unnamed members of the family on allegations of withholding the assets left to them by their late father, Chief Moshood Abiola. Their petition was contained…
LAGOS JULY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Leader of Ilana Omo Oodua, Emeritus Professor Banji Akintoye; Yoruba Nation Agitator Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho and other 49 Yoruba Self-Determination groups have filed a 27-page petition before the International Criminal Court (ICC). Several leaders of Yoruba Self-Determination groups appended their signatures on the petition. The petition was submitted at…