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…
LAGOS AUGUST 13TH (NEWRANGERS)-Soldiers of the Special Strike Forces deployed in Operation Lafiya Dole have protested against their posting to Marte, a Local Government Area (LGA) in Northern Borno State. The soldiers reacted to the news of the latest posting on Sunday evening by firing gunshots in the air at the Maiduguri International Airport in…
LAGOS JULY 13TH (NESRANGERS)-Tens of thousands of protesters are expected to take to the streets as Donald Trump meets with Theresa May on Friday to discuss a possible trade deal on a four-day working visit to the UK. Trump was met with handshakes and smiles when he landed at Stansted in Airforce One at 1:51pm…
LAGOS MAY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Cameroon’s national day Sunday was marked by violence in its troubled English-speaking region, with two policemen killed, soldiers wounded and a mayor kidnapped by suspected armed separatists. In the capital, Yaounde, in central Cameroon, President Paul Biya, who has ruled since 1982, presided over a public show of the country’s military might….