LAGOS NOVEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Mixed reactions have trailed the decision of Super Eagles coach Gernot Rohr to hand a national team recall to striker Odion Ighalo, who retired from international football in 2019. Rohr included Ighalo in his 24-man squad for the 2022 World Cup qualifying games against Liberia and Cape Verde later this month. Ighalo…
LAGOS AUGUST 28TH (NEWSRANGERS: The Department of State Services (DSS), has denied dispersing doctors attending a Saudi Arabia-organised job interview at the Sheraton Hotel in Abuja on Thursday. The spokesman for the DSS, Dr Peter Afunanya, made the denial in a statement issued in Abuja on Friday, August 27. Afunanya said the denial became necessary…
LAGOS AUGUST 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A survey by the Africa Polling Institute has revealed that Nigerians’ trust in the regime of retired Major General Muhammadu Buhari is 26 per cent. The survey also showed that “citizens have more trust in religious leaders (55%) and traditional leaders (44%); compared to the Buhari government (26%), the judicial system (26%),…
LAGOS AUGUST 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-After armed men snatched seven of Abubakar Adam’s 11 children in northwestern Nigeria, he sold his car and a parcel of land and cleaned out his savings to raise a ransom to free them. He sent his 3 million naira ($7,300) into the bush, together with payments from other families in his…
LAGOS AUGUST 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The visit of President Muhammadu Buhari and Bola Tinubu to the United Kingdom for medical care amid the ongoing strike by the National Association Residents Doctors (NARD) has sparked outrage across the country. Resident doctors have been on strike for over 15 days in protest of government’s failure to respect agreements on…
LAGOS JULY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerians refer to them as bandits – a word that does not quite do justice to what are in fact networks of sophisticated criminals who operate across large swathes of northern-western and central Nigeria. Gangs on motorbikes terrorise the region, stealing animals, kidnapping for ransom, killing anyone who dares confront them and…
LAGOS JULY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, said Nigerians should insist that the 2023 elections in the country must be made to be as Internet-complaint as possible, with the results transmitted electronically, “otherwise, there shall be no elections.” The pan-Yoruba made this clear demand in reaction to the rejection by the National Assembly of e-transmission…
LAGOS JULY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Vice-Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 general election, Mr. Peter Obi, has appealed to leaders at all levels of government to avoid actions capable of inflicting more hardship on millions of Nigerians, especially in this period that life is manifestly very tough for Nigerians. Obi was…