LAGOS JUNE 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria is one of the least peaceful places on earth, says 2019 Global Peace Index (GPI) report, despite claims by the All Progressives Congress-led government of President Muhammadu Buhari that the country is better than they met in 2015. The country, battling with banditry, economic stagnation, insurgency, kidnapping and an increasing rate…
LAGOS JUNE 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The European Union Observers have said the 2019 presidential election that returned President Muhammadu Buhari to power was not transparent. The EU pointed out that the February 23 and March 2, 2019, general elections were not transparent and were marred by violence, harassment, and intimidation. These elements, the observers said, seriously damaged…
LAGOS JUNE 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Uche Secondus has warned President Muhammadu Buhari and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), against muzzling the legislature and the other arms of the government. Prince Secondus speaking against the backdrop of the obvious direct involvement of the President and his party…
LAGOS JUNE 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said the country is moving towards disaster under President Muhammadu Buhari. Obasanjo, who spoke in an interview with Premium Times, said the economy was unstable, added that the current administration had destroyed the war against corruption, which he said started during his administration. The former Head of…
LAGOS JUNE 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A retired Commissioner of Police, Alhaji Abubakar Tsav, on Sunday said that Nigeria was yet civilised and mature for states to operate their own police systems. Tsav stated this in a statement he personally signed and made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Makurdi. He said that he was…
LAGOS JUNE 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Shell Nigeria Gas (SNG), the country’s first and wholly-owned subsidiary of an international oil company involved in domestic gas distribution in Nigeria, increased its gas distribution capacity by over 150% following the safe completion of its second gas train, the Agbara-Ota Capacity Increase Project. The world class facility enables SNG and its…
LAGOS JUNE 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Swiss authorities have filed a suit against Nigeria at the international court over the detention of its vessel, San Padre Pio. The Nigerian navy in Bonny, Rivers state, had arrested the ship on January 23, 2018 as the oil tanker, registered with canton Vaud shipping company ABC Maritime, and its crew members…
LAGOS JUNE 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The immediate past National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, John Oyegun, has thown his weight behind former President Olusegun Obasanjo statement on ‘Fulanisation’ of Nigeria, saying he was the kind of leader Nigeria needs. Oyegun told New Telegraph that Obasanjo’s comment on “Islamisation and Fulanisation” might have been dramatized,…
