LAGOS MARCH 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against the Senate President, Mr Godswill Akpabio over “the failure to reverse the patently unlawful suspension of Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, as the purported suspension is based solely on the peaceful exercise of her right to freedom of expression.” Mr Akpabio is sued…
LAGOS OCTOBER 14TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-Presidential candidate of Labour Party in the 2023 election, Peter Obi, has berated President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for the sudden fuel price hike from the comfort of an annual vacation. Daily Trust reports that while President Tinubu who has now headed for France was in London, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited…
LAGOS AUGUST 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-West African defence chiefs have made a plan for potential military intervention to reverse last week’s coup in Niger, including how and when to deploy forces, a leader of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) said on Friday. ECOWAS has given the junta until Sunday to reinstate ousted president Mohamed…
LAGOS JUNE 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The United States of America has again urged the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to rethink and rescind the Twitter ban in Nigeria. This message was conveyed by a top American official and senior diplomat, who is the current administrator of the US Agency for International Development, Samantha Power. Power, in…
By Abdulganeey Abiola Adeyemi LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The decision to reverse or tamper with any part of a national program is a very sensitive one that requires deep thinking and reflection. Historical perspective rightly provides us an insight and ideas behind any establishment or creation. Despite being the only living asset this country has bequeathed…
LAGOS JUNE 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Monday night’s meeting between the new Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, Professor Ibrahim Gambari, Chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole and the party’s National Working Committee, NWC, did not help Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State reverse his disqualification from the party’s governorship primary. Gambari had…
LAGOS JUNE 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr John Odigie-Oyegun, has said that the disqualification of Obaseki by the APC Screening Panel is a hatchet job aimed at installing a stooge that will allow some people unfettered access to Edo Treasury. Chief Oyegun noted that while the disqualification is not…