LAGOS APRIL 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria will next year conduct its first census in 17 years to try to accurately survey its population, estimated at more than 200 million people and the largest in Africa, the head of the national population agency said on Thursday. Censuses are controversial in Nigeria because rival ethnic and religious groups have…
LAGOS APRIL 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The U.S. State Department has cleared the sale of 12 AH-1Z Cobra attack helicopters to Nigeria worth nearly $1 billion, apparently after U.S. lawmakers lifted objections over human rights concerns. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency on Thursday announced the sale of the helicopters and related defense systems to the Nigerian military. The…
LAGOS APRIL 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-One week after a marathon meeting with leaders of Nigeria’s security architecture, the House of Representatives, on Wednesday, lamented the rising spate of insecurity in several parts of the country especially Benue, Taraba and Plateau states. Members of the House took turns to criticise the action and inaction of the regime led…
LAGOS APRIL 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria‘s President Muhammadu Buhari has vowed there will be “no mercy” for gunmen who killed more than 150 people in a series of weekend attacks in the country’s north. In some of the worst violence Nigeria has seen this year, armed gunmen on motorcycles raided and razed a group of villages in…
LAGOS APRIL 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Elder statesman and Former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olabode George, has stated that Former Governor Peter Obi is competent, capable, possesses integrity, sound character and has all it takes to serve Nigeria at the highest level. George made this known when Obi visited Lagos State PDP…
LAGOS APRIL 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Frontline Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential aspirant for the 2023 election, Mr. Peter Obi, in furtherance of his dream of building a better Nigeria, has called on the Board of Trustee (BOT) Members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and, by extension, Nigerians, to see the 2023 elections as an opportunity to…
By Chief (Barr.) Malcolm Omirhobo LAGOS APRIL 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-For any country to insist that it’s citizens must mandatory have a national identification number the country itself must provide an enabling environment to make the registration exercise work . First and foremost the country must have the record of its latest population census and a working…
LAGOS APRIL 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An expectant mother and her husband, a couple and two sisters are among those being held by terrorists who attacked an Abuja-Kaduna train, it was learnt yesterday. Aliyu Mahmud, a relative of the seven-month pregnant woman, was among the victims’ families who staged a peaceful protest at the Radio House in Abuja…
