LAGOS NOVEMBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS) – The United Nations on Wednesday said it would allocate $8 million to support more than 40,000 refugees who have fled violence in Nigeria to neighbouring Niger. Thousands have left northwest Nigeria since May as violence and attacks blamed on armed gangs have escalated. The surge in kidnappings, killings and sexual…
LAGOS OCTOBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Dozens of foreign nationals on Wednesday camped outside the Cape Town offices of the UN refugee agency demanding to be removed from South Africa saying they were no longer safe. Around 250 foreigners, many claiming to be asylum seekers from various African countries, vowed not to leave the premises until the United…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerians of Igbo extraction yesterday took the case of marginalisation and exclusion allegedly orchestrated against them by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration to the United Nations (UN). The group urged world powers to mount pressure on President Buhari to right the wrongs meted against the Igbo ethnic nationality, alleging that there was…
LAGOS JULY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Yoruba Elders in the Diaspora, under the aegis of the Yoruba Council of Elders in Europe and America, have petitioned the United Nations (UN) against the prevailing security situation in Nigeria, calling on the international body to prevent every attempt to foist Fulani dominance in the country, a situation they say may…
LAGOS JULY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Malcolm Omirhobo Foundation writes Secretary-General, Mr. Antonio Guterres of the United Nations to live up to its responsibility to protect defenceless innocent Nigerians from imminent genocide by averting same. The Foundation drew the attention of the United Nations that sequel to the suspension of the RUGA settlement policy on Wednesday, the 3rd…
LAGOS JULY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Imo State chapter, has threatened to drag President Muhammadu Buhari to the United Nations should he continue with his Ruga policy for herdsmen in the country. A report on Monday morning on Vanguard quoted Imo State Secretary of CAN, Reverend Eches Divine Eches, as alleging in…
LAGOS MARCH 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Peoples Democratic Party on Monday said it would petition the United Nations and other global democratic institutions on the role of the military and the killings of Nigerians during the Presidential and National Assembly elections on February 23. The PDP National Publicity Secretary, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan, who briefed the media after…
LAGOS AUGUST 21ST (NESRANGERS)-Ahead of this year’s Eid-el-Kabir celebration, the United Nations Department of Safety and Security (UNDSS) Nigeria has issued security advisory to its staff members, alerting them of possible attacks in Maiduguri and locations in the North Eastern part of the country during the celebrations. The Federal Government has declared Tuesday, August 21,…
