LAGOS AUGUST 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday said the biting sanctions imposed by the Economic Community of West African States on the Niger junta would not be lifted despite the military leaders’ promise to negotiate with the regional bloc to resolve the crisis in the francophone country. Tinubu, who stated this when he received…
LAGOS AUGUST 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The junta in Niamey, Niger Republic has started feeling the heat of the sanctions imposed on it by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). The ECOWAS imposed the sanctions following the forceful take over of power from the democratically-elected president of the country, Mahamed Bazoum. The sanction are effected by…
LAGOS AUGUST 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Diplomatic and economic sanctions imposed by Niger’s neighbors in the wake of a coup are beginning to bite, as the junta begins talks with regional leaders about the political crisis, the nation’s ambassador to the US said. The “sanctions have started having an effect in Niamey as we speak,” Kiari Liman Tinguiri…
LAGOS JULY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Heads of State and Government of ECOWAS on Sunday in Abuja called for the immediate release and reinstatement of President Mohamed Bazoum as the legitimate Head of State and Government of the Republic of Niger. In a communique at the end of the Extraordinary Summit on Socio-Political Situation in the Republic…
LAGOS MARCH 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The United States Embassy and Consulate in Nigeria, in a statement on Tuesday, has advised against interference in the ongoing legal processes challenging the outcome of Nigeria’s 2023 general elections. On its website, the mission described the use of ethnically charged rhetoric before, during, and after the governorship election in Lagos, Kano…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has sanctioned Continental Broadcasting Service Limited, owners of TVC and owned by Bola Ahmed Tinubu for airing inflammatory, derogatory and unfair comments of campaign rallies of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). In separate letters addressed to chief executive officers of…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Civil society organisations expressed mixed reactions as the National Broadcasting Commission fined Arise TV for airing fake reports about the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Ahmed Bola Tinubu. NBC on Monday fined Arise TV N2m for breaching the broadcasting code. Reacting, the Executive Director, Transition Monitoring Group, Auwal Rafsanjani, urged…
LAGOS AUGUST 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s broadcast regulator has fined Multichoice Nigeria Ltd, part of South African pay-TV group, and others 5 million naira ($12,013.74) each for airing a BBC report that it said “glorified the activities of bandits and undermines national security.” The National Broadcasting Commission said in a statement on Wednesday that the outlets had…