Nigeria’s Buhari Reviving Old Habits To Stifle Criticism

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…

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JUST IN: Sowore, Bakare Finally Regain Freedom After 125 Days In Detention

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…

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#RevolutonNow: Falana Expresses Disappointment Over Delay In Arraignment Of Sowore

LAGOS AUGUST 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN) has expressed disappointment that the convener of #RevolutionNow protests, Omoyele Sowore, has not been arraigned. The publisher of Sahara Reporters and presidential candidate of the African Action Congress in the February 2019 elections was arrested in the early hours of Saturday by operatives of the…

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#RevolutionNow: Protesters Clash With Security Agents , Arrest Journalist, Others (PHOTOS)

LAGOS AUGUST 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Protesters defied the Federal Government order banning them from holding the #RevolutionNow protest called by the publisher of Sahara Reporters, Mr. Omoyele Sowore. Sowore, who was arrested on Saturday by operatives of the Department of State Services on account of the then scheduled protest, was the presidential candidate of the African Action…

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