LAGOS JUNE 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-People in Senegal have been experiencing internet disruptions as authorities restrict access to social media amid protests. Many of the most popular platforms around, including Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, and YouTube, went dark across the country on the evening of June 1—UK-based internet watchdog NetBlocks has reported. Senegal is the third country…
LAGOS MAY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Thousands of people, including many undocumented migrants, marched in Paris and other French cities Saturday, protesting planned changes to immigration laws and evictions from the Indian Ocean island of Mayotte. In the French capital, demonstrators marched behind a banner proclaiming “No to the Darmanin law. Against repression, imprisonment and deportations, for a…
LAGOS APRIL 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Tens of thousands of Israelis have packed Tel Aviv streets for the 16th consecutive week to protest government judicial reforms they see as an attack on democracy. The weekly protests have continued despite Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on March 27 announcing a “pause” to allow for talks on the reforms which were…
LAGOS APRIL 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The people of Odighi Village in Ovia North East Local government Area of Edo State have kicked against the alleged overseeing of affairs of the village from abroad by the Enogie (Duke), HRH. Osaretin Akenzua. Mr Andrew Amayo, the third most elderly man (Ozukpogieha) in the Village stated this on behalf of…
LAGOS APRIL 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Obidients, a sobriquet for supporters of Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party, have staged a protest at the White House and Capitol Hill in the United States of America (USA). POLITICS NIGERIA reports that the protesters described the 2023 election in Nigeria which produced Bola Ahmed Tinubu as president-elect, as…
LAGOS APRIL 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Supporters of Nigeria’s President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, resident in the United States of America have moved swiftly to neutralise the impact of the Monday, April 3, scheduled protest at the iconic Lafayette Park opposite the US seat of power, the White House, by supporters of Labour Party (LP) Presidential Candidate, Mr….
LAGOS MARCH 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-It will be a march from the White House to the US Capitol Grounds, the statement said, noting that United States of America (US) based Nigerians, have recorded another major Diplomatic breakthrough, after receiving approval to protest the country’s February 25, 2023, Presidential election result to US Capitol grounds from the White…
LAGOS MARCH 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There was a protest on Wednesday by some traders selling items on the premises of the Lagos State Vehicle Inspection Centre’s headquarters in the Ojodu area of the state. PUNCH Metro gathered that the traders, on Wednesday, arrived to open their shops on the premises also housing the Federal Road Safety Corps,…