LAGOS AUGUST 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka, has condemned the arrest of activist Omoyele Sowore. Mr Sowore, a presidential candidate in the last election, was arrested on Saturday for calling for a revolution against poor governance. “Beyond the word ‘revolution, another much mis-used and misunderstood word, nothing that Sowore has uttered, written, or advocated…
LAGOS AUGUST 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has said that the Nigerian military in collaboration with armed forces of neighbouring countries have made tremendous progress in the war against insurgency since the inception of his administration. Speaking Friday at the graduation ceremony of Course 27 at the National Defence College in Abuja, President Buhari said: “This…
LAGOS AUGUST 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has come under fire for stacking his new cabinet with ageing party loyalists despite hopes he might opt for more technocrats in his final term. The senate this week approved the list of 43 ministers after the former military ruler finally settled on their names some two months…
By Joe Parkinson LAGOS AUGUST 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-At the northern edge of this city’s sprawling military base, a vast field of churned soil conceals the hidden toll of a deadly offensive by the allies of Islamic State. After dark, the bodies of soldiers are covertly transported from a mortuary that at times gets so crowded the…
LAGOS AUGUST 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian government has commenced a fresh recruitment drive targeted at retired military personnel, their dependants and other Nigerians who may be interested in benefiting from the initiative. Military sources told PREMIUM TIMES the exercise was approved early this week, and its implementation had already commenced across the country. A new Corps…
LAGOS JULY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)- President Muhammadu Buhari has tendered his West African Examination School Certificate, WAEC, before the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja. Buhari tendered the certificate, alongside a group photograph he took with his classmates at Provisional Secondary School Katsina State, in 1961, through his team of lawyers led by Chief Wole…
LAGOS JULY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Islamic Movement in Nigeria on Tuesday said its designation as a terrorist group by the President Muhammadu Buhari administration had the backing of Saudi Arabia. The group through its Spokesman, Ibrahim Musa, in an interview with one of our correspondents in Kaduna, said the Buhari administration designated the IMN, also known…
LAGOS JULY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari opened his defence on. Tuesday by tendering some 26 documents, including copies of his academic credentials, including certified true copy (CTC) of the Confidential result sheet of University of Cambridge, West Africa School Certificate 1961 for Provincial Secondary School, Katsina. Buhari,listed as the second respondent in the petition by…