LAGOS NOVEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria has officially slid into second recession under the watch of President Muhammadu Buhari’s Government. The recent economic recession is the worst in over three decades, TheCable can report. According to gross domestic product numbers released by the National Bureau of Statistics on Saturday, the nation recorded a contraction of 3.62 percent…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s president will do what it takes to prevent a repeat of demonstrations against police brutality last month that led to unrest in which dozens of protesters and police were killed and more than 200 buildings torched, the police minister said. Protests against an elite police force, the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, or…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Commission for Persons with Disabilities (NCPD) has revealed that it has integrated about seven hundred ex-military personnel, who had their limbs amputated and eventually dismissed from the service due to the Boko Haram insurgent. The NCPD, which revealed this on Thursday during its 2021 budget defence at the National Assembly,…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Suspended Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos, Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, has been reinstated. This was contained in a statement from the Ministry of Education’s Director Press and Public Relations, Ben-Bem Goong, on Wednesday. The statement was titled, ‘Re: Report of special visitation panel to UNILAG’. It read in part, “President Muhammadu…
By Bolu Babalola LAGOS OCTOBER 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Fela Kuti’s 1989 song Beasts of No Nation was the first that the Afrobeat pioneer and Nigerian activist recorded after his twenty-month imprisonment under military rule of Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria’s head of state from 1983-85. Kuti was an active, audacious opponent of Buhari, who in turn sought to quiet…
By Chief Mike Ozekhome LAGOS OCTOBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-I just had, most humbly, the misfortune , of reading the 27 paragraph national broadcast by president Muhammadu Buhari. I had guffawed when many Nigerians awaited the speech with great expectations and bated animation, believing erroneously, that, like I had humbly advised president Buhari yesterday, he would roll…
LAGOS OCTOBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered a probe into the shootings of #EndSARS protesters at the Lekki toll gate. The Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Sunday Dare, said this during an interview on Arise Television on Friday. Many people were injured when soldiers opened live ammunition on the #EndSARS protesters Tuesday night….
LAGOS OCTOBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A group, ‘I stand With Buhari’, has informed the police in Abuja of its plan to hold a 10 million-man march in support of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.). The Convener of the group, Ogochukwu Ezeaku, said this during an interview with The PUNCH on Monday, adding that he was positive that…