LAGOS JANUARY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Random search of phones and laptops of persons by policemen in Ilorin, Kwara State capital, has continued despite the order by the state Police Commissioner, Tuesday Assayomo, banning the action. In the latest incident, which occurred on Friday, one Adeyemi was stopped by a police patrol team in a pickup vehicle at…
LAGOS DECEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Four frontline entertainers and activist involved in the #EndSARS protests against police brutality, Folarin Falana, Debo Adebayo, Seun Kuti and Dele Farotimi have declined the invitation by Lagos State governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu to join a “walk for peace”. The development is sequel to the offer made by the governor on Tuesday, inviting…
LAGOS JUNE 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The usual high patronage of Point of Sale (PoS) services in the country is in reverse trend as bank customers now resort to Automated Teller Machines (ATM) and other channels like online banking, Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD), among others. In the heat of COVID-19, last year, banks and other financial companies…
LAGOS JUNE 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Undeterred by the Federal Government’s ban of Twitter operations in Nigeria, Nigerians logged on to the microblogging site in large numbers on Saturday to lambast the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), and the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN). The ban took effect barely two…
LAGOS DECEMBER 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 election, Mr. Peter Obi, has urged Nigerians to shun ethnic, tribal and religious sentiments, and focus on competence and credibility, when electing leaders into public offices, saying that the country has continued to suffer under the burden of poor…
LAGOS OCTOBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Federal, Lagos and Oyo state governments have received no fewer 126 petitions on human rights violations by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad of the Nigeria Police Force. Government officials, who disclosed this in separate interviews with The PUNCH on Tuesday, stated that 65 petitions had been received by the Federal Government, 46 in …
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Kaduna chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria, Christian leaders from the Southern part of Kaduna as well as the Southern Kaduna Peoples Union, on Tuesday, boycotted a peace summit in Kafanchan, Jema’a Local Government Area of Kaduna State. Organised by “Friends of Southern Kaduna” in collaboration with the Nigeria Christian…
LAGOS APRIL 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Governors of the 19 states in the North under the aegis of the Northern States Governors’ Forum have said they would not be shutting down the region despite the spread of the Coronavirus Disease in the country. The Governors made their position known in a statement after their meeting on Monday. A…