LAGOS JANUARY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Sporadic gunshots sent people scampering for safety, even as four persons were wounded and property worth hundreds of thousands of naira were destroyed at the end of the Abia State Governorship Debate in Umuahia on Tuesday. The debate held at Abia Hotels was organised by Online Media Practitioners Association of Nigeria (OMPAN),…
LAGOS DECEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There was a protest by some political parties’ Chairmen during the signing of peace accord who claimed that the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, was given undue advantage at the ceremony. The aggrieved party Chairmen wondered why President Muhammadu Buhari who is the APC candidate in the 2019 election should be given…
LAGOS DECEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Students of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife on Monday expressed their reservations against the planned visit of the Nigerian Vice -president, Professor Yemi Osinbajo into the campus to attend the 43rd combined convocation of the university holding next week. The students, through their representative, Gbenga Ololoniran, who is the Protem Chairman, Students’…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Hundreds of people protested in the Centre of the Tunisian Capital Tunis on Tuesday against a planned visit by Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to the country. The crown prince is expected to arrive on Tuesday, as part of a tour of several Arab countries on his first trip abroad…
LAGOS OCTOBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A number of legislative aides, on Tuesday trooped out en masses to protest the non-payment of their allowances of N5.8bn, disrupting the activities of the National Assembly which was billed to resume Today. The protesters were seen at the lobby of the NASS complex dressed in black, expressing their grievances to the…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-This morning, some graduate cadets of the Nigerian Seafarers Development Programme (NSDP) besieged the headquarters of Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) in Apapa Lagos protesting 3 years of abandonment and lack of sea time by NIMASA since after graduation. The cadets insist they would sleep at NIMASA entrance gate for…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nura Ilyasu, the man who climbed a telecommunications mast in Abuja on Wednesday to protest the re-election bid of President Muhammadu Buhari, has finally descended. He came down from the mast on Thursday. Ilyasu touched ground at 11:25am voluntarily, after security operatives acceded to his request that he must address the press…
LAGOS AUGUST 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Hundreds of workers under of the Cleaner Lagos Initiative (CLI) of the Lagos State Government on Monday, staged a protest at the office of Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode. The workers, who chanted solidarity songs and displayed banners with different inscriptions said that they are being owed salaries for July and Aug. 2018. Inscriptions…