LAGOS FEBRUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Protests by freight forwarders and customs brokers at the Lagos Port, which began at the weekend, may have cost the country over N200 billion as port activities remained paralysed as of yesterday evening. Port expert and President of National Council of Managing Directors of Licensed Customs Agents, Mr. Lucky Amiwero, told New…
LAGOS JANUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-National Assembly workers on Monday in Abuja staged a protest at the lobby of the complex over the non-payment of their salaries and allowances by the management. The placards carrying protesters shut down all the entrances into the building singing solidarity songs with inscription “Pay Us Our MOU.” The workers under the…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Hundreds of Libyans protested in Tripoli Friday against “war criminals” running in next month’s presidential election, after eastern strongman Khalifa Haftar and a son of ousted dictator Moamer Kadhafi announced bids. Demonstrators stamped on posters of Haftar and Seif al-Islam Kadhafi, and voiced anger over a controversial electoral law criticised for bypassing…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The All Progressives Congress (APC) and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have protested the results released so far by the Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC) in the Anambra governorship poll. Their agents in Onitsha South, Dunukofia, Ayamelum and Anambra East local government areas said the results didn’t reflect reality from the poll. The APC…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Rev. Jesse Jackson was hospitalized on Monday after he fell during a visit to Howard University to advocate on behalf of students protesting campus living conditions. The 80-year-old civil rights leader took a spill and hit his head while entering a building on the Washington, DC, campus, according to his spokesman…
LAGOS OCTOBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Nurses in Eswatini are refusing to treat police officers as they accuse them of shooting colleagues during a pro-democracy rally on Wednesday. Protests in Africa’s last absolute monarchy, formerly known as Swaziland, have swept the country since June. Some internet services, such as Facebook, were temporarily shut down this week in response…
LAGOS OCTOBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)— Hundreds of migrants protested for the 10th straight day Monday outside a United Nations facility in Libya’s capital of Tripoli demanding evacuation from the North African nation. The gathering outside the U.N. refugee agency’s facility began after Libyan authorities launched a massive crackdown on migrants earlier this month in the western…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-As President Mohammadu Buhari of Nigeria prepares to address the ongoing United Nations General Assembly, there are barrage of protests planned to embarrass him at the global event. African Examiner gathered that various organizations, dissidents, activists, self-determination groups have mobilised Nigerians in the US to troop out to demonstrate against the president…