LAGOS MARCH 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has urged government at all levels to desist from taking citizens as fool so as to bridge the gap between leaders and the led. Soyinka, who was a guest speaker at The Punch 50th anniversary lecture, themed ‘Recovering the Narrative,’ insisted that the government ought to be…
LAGOS MAY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Southern Senators Forum (SSF), has commended the Southern Governors Forum (SGF) for outrightly taking a firm position on burning national issues, including restructuring and banning open grazing of cattle in Southern part of the country, among other demands. The lawmakers said the decision was a welcome development against the backdrop of…
LAGOS DECEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde has said Nigeria needs adequate security and restructuring of the country much more than the ethnicity of the person who occupies the presidency. The governor maintained that the need to restructure the country has become more imperative in the face of security challenges and only time will…
LAGOS OCTOBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) has supported other regional socio-political groups and prominent Nigerians calling for restructuring of the country. The presidency last week claimed that those calling for restructuring were threatening the corporate existence of Nigeria., However, the NEF on Tuesday advised Nigerians not to be tired of demanding the restructuring…
By Jerome-Mario Utomi LAGOS JULY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There are in the words of the sage, important limits to human relations, knowledge, awareness, and technological state, economic and financial resource availability, social and cultural exposures. Political and Socioeconomic problems which are the product of human actions and reactions are not static. They change with time and place. What is…
LAGOS JULY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The United States of America has sought the views of the Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Adams, on the security situation in the country. A two-man team of officials from the US Embassy in Lagos, led by the Political Officer, Shashank Iyer, met with Adams on Monday in his Lagos home…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Presidential aspirant, Dr Bukola Saraki, yesterday, warned Nigerians to be mindful of presidential aspirants promising to restructure Nigeria, if elected president. Saraki, who spoke at the PDP secretariat in Lagos State, where he was endorsed as favourite candidate, said restructuring agenda was not something a president could single-handedly…
LAGOS JULY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Some members of the Southern and Middle Belt Forum, led by Chief Edwin Clark, were on Monday in Abuja stopped from traveling to Makurdi, the capital of Benue State to attend the Middle Belt summit on restructuring. They reported that their chartered flight was stopped from flying to the Benue State capital…