LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSSRANGERS)-Sixteen socio-cultural leaders from southern Nigeria have instituted a suit against President Muhammadu Buhari for allegedly marginalising the people of the southern region from appointments in his administration. In the suit filed before a federal high court in Abuja, the plaintiffs led by Edwin Clark are asking the court to award the…
LAGOS JUNE 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Based on recent happening in the polity, a Lagos activist and legal luminary, Barr. (Chief) Malcolm Omirhobo has alleged that President Muhammadu Buhari is medical unfit to govern Nigeria. Making the allegation in a letter written to the Secretary to the Federal Government of Nigeria, Secretary to the Federal Executive Council and…
LAGOS JUNE 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian-based foremost American radio presenter, Dan Foster is dead. Details of his death are sketchy as of the time of filing this report. Reacting to Foster’s death, popular broadcaster, Frank Edoho, tweeted, “I just got off the phone, my friend Oscar confirmed that Dan Foster has passed on. “This is a very…
LAGOS JUNE 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Minister of Power, Sale Mamman, has insisted that the new increment on electricity tariff would take off in July. He stated this on Tuesday at the Investigative Public Hearing on Power Sector Recovery Plan and the impact of COVID-19 pandemic organised by the Senate Committee on Power. Mamman said COVID-19 pandemic…
LAGOS JUNE 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)- The UK All-Party Parliamentary Group for International Freedom of Religion or Belief yesterday, Monday, June 15, 2020, released the report of its “inquiry into the ongoing violence between farmers and herders in Nigeria”. In the report to be found at https://appgfreedomofreligionorbelief.org/nigeria-unfolding-genocide-new-appg-report-launched/ the UK parliamentarians said that during their fact-finding mission to Nigeria, they…
LAGOS JUNE 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government has declared that travelers to Nigeria are now required to submit their passports with the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) for two weeks pending the verification of their COVID-19 status. The directive is contained in a circular addressed to all diplomatic, consular and international organisations accredited to Nigeria in line…
LAGOS JUNE 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Vice-Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 elections, Mr. Peter Obi, has condemned in the strongest terms the incessant killing of Nigerians on the country’s highways. Obi was reacting to the killing, on Thursday, of a popular Kogi-based businessman, Mr. Chuks Ofodile, along the Gegu-Koton Federal Highway…
By Soji Adeleye LAGOS JUNE 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-This is a very unique moment in human history. The first time in our lifetime fear is the common denominator, when there are no superpowers, no segmentation of humanity. It is humbling to observe how inconsequential the human race is. Imagine for a moment if there were no scientists…
