LAGOS NOVEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday struck out the treasonous charges brought against 119 Nigerians including those detained since August for participating in the #EndBadGovernance protest. This was pronounced by Obiora Egwuatu, the presiding judge, who struck out the case following an application by M.D Abubakar, counsel to the Attorney-General…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Twenty-nine children could be facing the death penalty in Nigeria after they were arraigned Friday for participating in a protest against the country’s record cost-of-living crisis. Four of them collapsed in court due to exhaustion before they could enter a plea. A total of 76 protesters were charged with 10 felony counts,…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 2ND (NEWSRNAGERS)-Dozens of alleged protesters were brought before a Nigerian court on Friday, sparking outrage as many of the defendants appeared to be malnourished following two months of detention. Four young suspects – who were arrested during major anti-government protests in August – collapsed on the courtroom floor, writhing in pain before being…
LAGOS OCTOBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Labour Party Presidential candidate in 2023 general election, Mr Peter Obi has raised concern over the continued power outages in many parts of the country, particularly in the Northern and Eastern States, as well as South-South states. Peter Obi who said the outages have remained a cause of grievous concern stated that…
LAGOS OCTOBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Report indicates that the job title of Senior Software Engineer and 29 others within Nigeria’s workforce typically attract monthly gross salaries of N1,000,000 or more. This is extrapolated from a report titled: Nigerian workplace report 2024 based on a survey conducted by Intelpoint in collaboration with Alt School conducted between December 2023…
LAGOS OCTOBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-After three years of extensive investigation, a global team of academics has created the first-ever “World Cybercrime Index,” which ranks the most important national sources of cybercrime and identifies the world’s major hotspots. The World Cybercrime Index was developed by researchers from the University of Oxford and UNSW Canberra, who surveyed 92…
LAGOS OCTOBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The U.S. on Thursday deployed a plane outfitted with medical supplies to retrieve Tigran Gambaryan, an executive of Binance Holdings Limited, from Nigeria. According to The New York Times, Gambaryan left the country after the Federal Government dropped money laundering charges against him. Vanguard had earlier reported that on Wednesday, the…
LAGOS OCTOBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo has decried the size of debt being owned by the country, years after he left office in 2007. Obasanjo recalled he left the nation with about $70 billion, including a $45 billion reserve and $25 billion in a designated “excess crude” account. The former President spoke on…
