MAY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-LAGOS Pandemonium broke out on Wednesday at the Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Aro, Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, when patients in the hospital protested what they described as the ‘poor treatments’ they are subjected to by management of the facility. It was gathered that a psychiatric doctor, whose identity is yet-to-be ascertained, and three nurses…
LAGOS MARCH 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The people of Omagwa and Ipo communities in Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers State have barricaded the entrance of the Port Harcourt International Airport while protesting lack of power supply and other amenities. The protest has disrupted flight operations as air travellers are stranded, just as the situation has caused a…
LAGOS MARCH 7TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-A Lagos-based socio-cultural organisation, De Renaissance Patriots, has stated that political parties in Nigeria must pick their candidates for governorship position in the state from the indigenous people of Lagos “Ibile Eko.” The group stated this in a release titled, “We are real, we are not faceless people: Men behind De Renaissance…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Hundreds of Nigerians demonstrated against the soaring cost of living in the south of the country on Monday after huge protests in the north earlier this month. Nigeria is suffering an economic crisis and soaring prices have left many people struggling to afford food. Demonstrators in the southwestern city Ibadan were furious…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Violent protests in Senegal against the postponement of presidential elections have spread across the country, with the first fatality reported. A student died in clashes with police on Friday in the northern city of Saint-Louis, an opposition leader and a local hospital source said. In the capital Dakar, security forces fired tear…
LAGOS DECEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There is mounting anxiety over alleged maltreatment and forcible administration of COVID-19 vaccine on inmates of the Kirikiri Correctional Centre in Lagos. Sources alleged that six inmates died after recent administration of the vaccine, while others exhibited speech disorder and abnormal behaviour. According to sources, the inmates, as a result of the…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Tragedy struck, yesterday, when a car owner, who was alleged to be running away from arrest, crushed two highway sweepers of the Lagos Waste Management Authority, LAWMA, to death at Gbagada area of the state. An eyewitness, narrated that the car owner was on top speed, while trying to evade arrest allegedly by…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Members of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC) on Thursday grounded activities at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International in Abuja. The move is part of actions by the unions following an attack on the president of the NLC Joe Ajaero in Imo State. . But what started as…