LAGOS MARCH 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The United Kingdom has introduced a new policy in a bid to curb the recruitment of doctors from Nigeria and other developing countries. The policy does not, however, bar Nigerian doctors from migrating to the UK. This is according to a statement by the UK government titled, ‘UK to strengthen its ethical…
LAGOS MARCH 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Denmark and Iceland have both suspended use of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine because of concerns surrounding fatal blood clots. Denmark’s health minister Magnus Heunicke wrote in a tweet, translated from Danish: “The health authorities have, due to precautionary measures, suspended vaccination with AstraZeneca following a signal of a possible serious side effect in…
LAGOS MARCH 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Jehovah’s Witnesses are known worldwide for actively taking the preaching of Gods kingdom to people’s house. An activity which gained them the publicity they enjoy today. But have you also notice that in recent times especially since the outbreak of the Corona virus, the Witnesses have not been seen preaching from house…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The controversy surrounding the office of the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) has taken a legal dimension with a suit asking the federal high court to stop Mohammed Adamu from further parading himself as the holder of the office. In an originating summons marked FHC/ABJ/CS/106/2021, the plaintiff, Maxwell Opara, an Abuja based legal…
LAGOS DECEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to stop the push for registration of Nigerians for National Identity Number (NIN), and withdraw the threat to block SIM cards. The Human Rights group in a statement on Sunday asked the President to “instruct the Minister of Communications and Digital…
LAGOS DECEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Police Force has filed a suit at the Federal High Court in Abuja praying for an order stopping the various states’ judicial panels of enquiry probing allegations of rights abuses and other acts of brutality of the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad and other police tactical units. The plaintiff in the…
LAGOS OCTOBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Soldiers manning the gate at the Military Hospital in Ikoyi have stopped the Lagos judicial panel on #EndSARS from assessing the hospital’s mortuary. The panel, unannounced, on Friday went to the hospital on investigation into the shooting at Lekki tollgate where 15 protesters were reportedly killed. Witnesses of the Lekki shooting accused…
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-John Bolton, a former United States national security adviser, has alleged that President Donald Trump once argued that the $1.5 billion annual aid given to Nigeria should be stopped. Bolton, in a book titled “In the Room Where It Happened”, alleged that the president also said funding for military operations in Afghanistan and…