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…
LAGOS DECEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Every year the instant messaging platform WhatsApp ends its support for several phones and this year is no different. As the year 2022 is coming to an end, WhatsApp is also ending support for some Android phones as well as a few iPhone models. While this should sound worrying, most users…
LAGOS MAY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Mask Gunmen have threatened to ban all church activities in the South East region, POLITICS NIGERIA has gathered. In a video published on Social media recently, several masked gunmen wielding rifles and an RPG are seen with a voice identifying the group as the ‘Sea Masters Volunteer Force’. They threatened to ban…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The ECOWAS Court of Justice, today dismissed the Federal Republic of Nigeria’s motion to strike out the Consolidated Suit against it on the ban of Twitter, as lacking in foundation . The Federal Government of Nigeria suspended Twitter operation in Nigeria on June 4, 2021 two days after a controversial tweet from…
LAGOS JANUARY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Abuja Division of the Federal High Court yesterday ordered the service of fresh hearing notice in the suit seeking to stop the Nigeria Police Force and the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami, SAN, from arresting and extraditing the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, DCP, Abba…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At least four planes chartered to evacuate several hundred people seeking to escape the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan have been unable to leave the country for days, officials said Sunday, with conflicting accounts emerging about why the flights weren’t able to take off as pressure ramps up on the United States to…
LAGOS AUGUST 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Lagos State House of Assembly has cut the pension of former governors of the state by 50 per cent. The decision was taken after the adoption of a report by the House committee on establishment which gave the recommendation, according to a statement on Thursday by the chief press secretary to the…
LAGOS JULY 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The naira fell slightly to the dollar at the parallel market few hours after the Central Bank of Nigeria on Tuesday announced the discontinuity of forex supplies to the Bureau de Change Operators in the country. The CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele, announced the end of forex sales and new licence approval after…