LAGOS JUNE 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Igbo leaders, on Wednesday, reiterated their aversion to the taking the position of the Vice President in any of the major political parties in Nigeria, a position they started drumming up early enough in the current political arrangement in the country. But it comes as they threw their weight firmly behind Peter…
LAGOS MARCH 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Workers, marketers and transporters as well as residents of Awka and other communities of Anambra state on Monday ignored order by Gov. Charles Soludo, to resume normal socio-economic activities against the Sit-At-Home directive by the Indigenous People of Biafran (IPOB). Our Correspondent investigation at the various markets within Awka, the state capital,…
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 …
