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…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Dolly Parton was twice offered the Presidential Medal of Freedom by the Trump administration, but turned it down, she revealed on Monday. “I couldn’t accept it because my husband was ill,” she told “Today” in an interview set to air on Tuesday. “And then they asked me again about it and I…
LAGOS JANUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Yoruba rights activist, Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, has said attempts to make him head of Operation Amotekun, a South-West Security Network, are “embarrassing”. Igboho stated this during an Instagram Live Chat with media mogul, Dele Momodu, on Tuesday. He had asked herdsmen in Ibarapa Local Government Area of Oyo…
By Tokunboh Aremu Odua LAGOS JANUARY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-CSP Francis Osagie Erhabor, the policeman and divisional police officer (DPO) in charge of ‘D’ division Itam in Uyo, the capital of Akwa Ibom state, who is acclaimed to have never taken a bribe since over 30 years in active service, has resigned from the profession. Erhabor, who…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Judges across the country are rejecting arguments made by President Donald Trump’s campaign and Republican leaders claiming voter fraud. For months, Trump’s unsubstantiated claims have formed the centerpiece of his assault on the integrity of the election. At one point he claimed in May that “there is NO WAY (ZERO!) that Mail-In…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Senate, on Wednesday, stressed its opposition to the granting of amnesty to acclaimed repentant Boko Haram insurgents, saying some of them masterminded recent attack in Damboa, Borno State in which several persons, including an army General was killed. Members of the Committee on Army, who briefed newsmen shortly after the budget defence,…