LAGOS AUGUST 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Office of the National Security Adviser (NSA) and heads of security agencies have directed the Nigerian Immigration Services (NIS) to arrest human rights activist and former presidential candidate of African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, and other ‘sponsors’ of nationwide #EndBadGovernance protest placed on watch-list. Although the Comptroller General of NIS,…
LAGOS JANUARY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Comrade Omoyele Sowore, Presidential Candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), has fired a salvo at Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Presidential Candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Tinubu and Sowore were among those who attended the meeting that the National Peace Committee under the leadership of Gen Abdulsalami Abubakar (rtd) organised…
LAGOS JUNE 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-On Tuesday, the 14th of June, 2022, Mr. Peter Obi informed Nigerians via his twitter handle of his trip to Egypt, to understudy by what miracle the third biggest economy in Africa after South-Africa and Nigeria moved their power generation from 20,000 Megawatts to over 40,000 megawatts in four years. Ironically, Nigeria…
LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Sunday Igboho has been on the internet after he gave seven days ultimatum for Fulanis to leave the state. The IG of Police has ordered for the arrest of Sunday Igboho and everyone have been against his arrest . Just recently the video of Sunday Igboho’s mother have been going viral on…
LAGOS DECEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s government is reviving old habits from its authoritarian past to stifle criticism. Evoking memories of Nigeria’s three decades of military rule, the repression risks undoing progress Africa’s top oil producer has made since the restoration of multiparty democracy in 1999. Governance and other reforms have helped more than double average annual…
LAGOS DECEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Omoyele Sowore, the convener of #RevolutionNow and publisher of Sahara Reporters has eventually regained his freedom, 125 days after being detained by the Department of State Services (DSS), Also set free is Olawale Adebayo Bakare (aka Mandate) who was arrested in Osun State during a #RevolutionNow protest. Both released on bail are…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As the waiting game continues at the headquarters of the Department of State Services in Abuja over the release of Omoyele Sowore, his lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), has vowed to remain at the facility pending the release of his client. The human rights lawyer insisted that he and his team would stay…
LAGOS AUGUST 10TH (NEWSRANGRS)-The presidential candidate of the African Action Alliance in the February 2019 General Elections, Omoyele Sowore, on Friday applied to the Federal High Court in Abuja to set aside its order permitting the Department of State Services to detain him for 45 days. Sowore, the convener of #RevolutionNow protests, through his lawyer,…