LAGOS OCTOBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Global human rights organisation, Amnesty International, has condemned and berated the President Bola Tinubu-led Nigerian government over a warning issued to Arise Television by the National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) for allegedly using “derogatory and incendiary remarks” against the President and others on its station. SaharaReporters earlier reported that the NBC issued a…
LAGOS JULY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Labour Party presidential candidate Peter Obi has attacked the lawyers of President Bola Tinubu, Vice President Kashim Shettima and the All Progressives Congress, over their warning of possible anarchy if the 25 February election was upturned on account of the non-uploading of the election results on INEC portal. In the final…
LAGOS JULY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nollywood actress, Jaiye Kuti, has taken to her social media account to knock some veteran actors over the habit of begging on social media whenever they are in trouble. In a video posted on her Instagram page, the actress accused some of her older colleagues of denting the image of the…
LAGOS MAY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-One of the lawyers of Afrobeat singer, Seun Kuti, Adeyinka Olumide-Fusika, SAN, has slammed the Nigeria Police force for not Interrogating his client before they decided to handcuff him and also display his pictures on the internet It would be recalled that the Mugshots of the musician surfaced online on Monday and…
LAGOS MAY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Chairman of the Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, has flayed the Nigeria Customs Service, Nigerian Ports Authority and the Nigerian Shippers’ Council for the congestion of the nation’s ports. Dangote slammed maritime sector stakeholders in his remarks at the third ‘Race to US$200bn In FX Repatriation’ Non-Oil Export Summit of the Central…
LAGOS APRIL 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government has introduced new set of taxes on beer, imported vehicles and single use plastics. It has also added to the list of items banned from being imported into the country. Under the newly introduced taxes, the Federal Government will charge N75 per litre of beer or stout imported into…
LAGOS MARCH 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A cross-section of fans on Monday said they were unimpressed by the Super Eagles 1-0 win over the Wild Dogs of Guinea Bissau. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Super Eagles claimed their pound of flesh against the Wild Dogs of Guinea Bissau right in front of their own…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has chided the hierarchy of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, for spending the entire four years since the last 2019 general elections preparing for the presidential and legislative elections only to churn out a ‘shambolic, criminally manipulated and anything but…