LAGOS MARCH 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Lagos based human right lawyer Chief (Barr.) Malcolm Omirhobo has condemned attack and killing of sixteen military men in Okuoma community of Ughelli North LGA of Delta State. He equally chastised the military for reprisal attack which has allegedly resulted in total razing of the the Urhobo community. Presently, there is…
LAGOS JANUARY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate in the 2023 election, Peter Obi, has called on President Bola Tinubu and his vice, Kashim Shettima, to address the current insecurity in the country with immediate effect. The former Governor of Anambra State in a statement via X on Tuesday expressed deep concern over what…
LAGOS JUNE 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Key players in the country’s downstream sub-sector of the oil and gas industry are seeking access to foreign exchange at a rate that will be friendly to their bottom-line. They also expressed concerns over what they described as haphazard implementation of the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA), especially, with regard to the withdrawal…
LAGOS MAY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has put a stop to a sharp practice by electricity distribution companies (DISCOs) in the country. Hitherto, DISCOs in the country have engaged in the practice of billing customers disconnected from electricity supply due to non-payment. The practice has resulted in protests and litigations among customers…
LAGOS MAY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A court in Nigeria has been asked to stop the planned inauguration of the country’s next president and to extend the incumbent’s tenure, court documents obtained Friday show. Five Nigerians made the request to the Federal High Court in Abuja, arguing that President-elect Bola Tinubu was illegally declared the winner of the…
LAGOS APRIL 25TH (NEWSRAGERS)-A new suit seeking to halt the inauguration of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as Nigeria’s new President on May 29, 2023, has been filed at the Court of Appeal in Abuja. The suit marked CA/CV/259/2023 filed by Hope Democratic Party (HDP) is praying the court for an order stopping the inauguration. The…
LAGOS APRIL 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-NIGERIA’s health sector may be heading for another round of crisis as the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) has vowed to ensure a House of Representatives bill seeking to deny doctors full licence until they have worked in Nigeria for five years after graduation does not sail through. On Thursday, April 6, the…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Police operatives in Niger State on Tuesday stopped a grand lockdown rally to sell the candidacy of the presidential standard bearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his running mate, Senator Kassim Shettima. The programme was also meant to drum support for the governorship candidate of the…