LAGOS FEBRUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Egypt has filed a complaint with the African soccer confederation against the appointment of a Gambian referee for the Pharaohs’ game against Cameroon in the African Cup of Nations semifinals on Thursday. The Egyptian Football Association did not give reasons for its complaint against Bakary Gassama, one of Africa’s best-known referees. He…
LAGOS DECEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s Lagos State rejected findings by a judicial panel that security forces carried out a “massacre” of unarmed protesters last year, maintaining that only one person suffered a gunshot wound, according to a paper issued by the government this week. The judicial panel, which submitted its full report last month, was tasked…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra State has given N1 million to a woman that rejected N5,000 cash-for-vote bribe during the just-concluded governorship election in the state, which Professor Chukwuma Soludo won. The woman, a native of Ukwulu in Dunukofia Local Government Area rejected the offer from a political party’s representative, who was…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The management of THISDAY has disclaimed Mr. Stanley Nkwazema, one of the suspects paraded by the police on Thursday in connection with the invasion of the residence of Supreme Court Judge, Justice Mary Odili. The Force Public Relations Officer, CP Frank Mba, had described Nkwazema, who was arrested along with other suspects…
LAGOS AUGUST 23RD (NEWSRAGERS)-Many times on this page, I write lies. Not today. This one is as painfully real as watching Kadaga take office as deputy to Nabbanja. I had been picked as one of the three journalists to cover the asylum of Afghan refugees. The Uganda Airlines plane touched down at Hamid Karzai International…
LAGOS JULY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Republic of Benin has resisted Nigeria’s attempts to hastily extradite the Yoruba nation activist, Sunday Adeyemo, also known as Sunday Igboho, to the headquarters of the Department of State Services in Abuja. The PUNCH gathered that the Federal Government planned to extradite the activist on Wednesday (yesterday), but Benin Republic insisted…
LAGOS JULY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Facts on Thursday emerged about how the All Progressives Congress rallied its senators to reject moves to adopt electronic transmission of election results in 2023. The PUNCH gathered that since last month, the APC had been reaching out to its lawmakers through zonal caucuses and insisting that their position on the controversial…
LAGOS APRIL 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The comedienne, Ada Jesus is gradually receiving treatment at an undisclosed hospital in Anambra State after a Good Samaritan and Human Right Activist, Harrison took it upon himself to see her stand to her feet again. Donations have since come from different people, like from the likes of Marksman Chunedu Ijiomah, the President and…