LAGOS JUNE 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Human rights activist and former presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore, has reportedly collapsed and was subsequently taken to a hospital following a confrontation with the Nigerian police during a Democracy Day protest at Unity Fountain in Abuja. Witnesses at the scene alleged that Sowore collapsed after police operatives moved to disperse protesters…
LAGOS AUGUST 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)- Security forces fired gunshots and tear gas to quell mass protests across Nigeria on Thursday as thousands, mostly young people, poured onto the streets to rally against the country’s worst cost-of-living crisis in a generation. At least two people were reported killed. The deaths occurred in northern Niger state where protesters…
LAGOS AUGUST 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Angry youths marching against hunger and bad governance in the country have been dispersed by security operatives in Kano State. The Guardian reports the protesters had occupied a major road as early as at 8:00am and marched from Zoo Road down to state road and stationed at the Government house where they…
LAGOS OCTOBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-At least 125 people have died in a crush at an Indonesian football match that has become one of the world’s worst stadium disasters. Hundreds were also hurt in aftermath of home team Arema FC’s loss to bitter rivals at the overcrowded stadium late on Saturday in Malang, East Java. The crush…
LAGOS JANUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Three people died Sunday as hundreds of people took to the streets demanding the resignation of Gambian President Adama Barrow who wants to extend his term. They were the first deaths since protests erupted months ago against Barrow, who pledged in late 2016 to step down after three years in office. Police…
LAGOS JANUARY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Thousands of demonstrators in cities across Iran faced tear gas and accused security forces of firing live ammunition as police aggressively countered intensifying protests prompted by the downing of a Ukrainian commercial jet. The New York-based Center for Human Rights in Iran posted video of crowds fleeing tear gas clouds in Tehran’s Freedom…
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…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ahead of the forthcoming general elections, the Federal Operations Unit, Zone ‘A,’ Nigeria Customs Service, said it intercepted bales of uniforms, tear gas canisters and other paraphernalia of the Nigeria Police Force. The command revealed that the uniforms that were intercepted along Lagos road were concealed in a Toyota Sienna space bus…