LAGOS SEPTEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Lagos lawyer , and human right activist, Chief (Barr.) Malcolm Omirhobo has appealed to the Inspector General of Police, IGP Egbetokun to investigate report of alleged brutalization, extortion, stealing and fragrant abuse of power by officers of the Nigeria Police force in Sapele, Delta State. The Lawyer in a statement posted on…
LAGOS JULY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Most people who voted for Peter Obi, Nigeria’s Labor Party presidential candidate in the country’s 2023 presidential election, can’t attest to knowing him personally. But Perpetual, who shares her hometown of Agulu in Anambra state with Obi, says she can. So in February, amid a crippling economic downturn and the inconvenience of…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The past three weeks of Nigeria’s EndSARS protests have me listening again to late Nigerian Afrobeat star and political activist Fela Kuti’s “Sorrow Tears & Blood.” The song, released 42 years ago, is about the violence and psychological terror inflicted by Nigeria’s uniformed officials, in particular the police and army. Fela bemoans…
LAGOS JULY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Uche Secondus, on Thursday, led the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party to the National Assembly to protest against the alleged assault by men of the Nigeria Police on the Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose. It would recall that Fayose, on…
