LAGOS MARCH 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Tunde Bakare, serving overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly, LRA, has warned the President Muhammadu Buhari administration about what Nigerians can do. He warned that Nigerians can shut down the government as a result of herdsmen killings, conspiracy and mismanagement by the present administration. Bakare stated this at an event organised by…
LAGOS MARCH 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former president, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, on Friday encouraged Nigerians not to give up on the country despite its present challenges. In an Easter message posted on his official Facebook page, Jonathan said he still expects Nigeria to overcome its challenges no matter what evil forces may do. “Easter is a time when…
LAGOS MARCH 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s people are getting poorer despite the country’s slow recovery from recession and economic reforms are urgently needed, the International Monetary Fund has said. The Fund expects the government to “muddle through” in the medium term, and any progress could also be threatened if elections next year consume political energy and resources,…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Governor of Anambra State, Mr Peter Obi has reiterated that Nigerians must quickly search for a leader that will unite the country along the line of common citizenship and nationalistic objective, rather than the one with the tendency to further escalate the current misgivings among the divergent ethnic groups in the…
LAGOS JANUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Reactions have continued to trail the special statement issued by former President Olusegun Obasanjo advising President Buhari to heed the clarion call and bow out in 2019. In the special statement trending on social media, Obasanjo cited President Buhari’s impaired health, age, nepotism and the poor handling of the country’s economy as…
By Emmanuel Ogebe LAGOS JANUARY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Long before I arrived in the United States in 1997 on political asylum, I’d heard the apocryphal story of the visiting African who was asked by an American whether it was “true that Africans live on trees?” The well-educated and well-spoken African responded: “Yes, it is true, and the…