LAGOS JUNE 13TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-In his Democracy Day speech at the National Assembly Complex in Abuja, the President told security agents not to hound those criticising his administration’s perceived unpleasant policies. “Democracy requires a fair degree of tolerance for harsh words and stinging insults,” Tinubu stated before a retinue of lawmakers from the Senate and the…
LAGOS JUNE 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ex-Governor of Anambra State and the Labour Party presidential candidate in the 2023 elections, Mr. Peter Obi has called on Nigerian youths to reject the growing get-rich-quick culture and instead embrace hard work, skills acquisition, and entrepreneurship as sustainable paths to success. Obi made the appeal on Friday at the maiden edition…
By Emmanuel Udom LAGOS MAY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Abeokuta in Ogun state, Rev Dr Peter Odetoyinbo, over the weekend called on parish correspondents drawn from all the parishes of the Catholic Church in the state to be christo focus or christo centered in reporting activities of the church in the state. In…
LAGOS APRIL 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas “to immediately withdraw the repressive bill for an act to amend the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023, which seeks to regulate the activities of bloggers operating within the ‘territorial boundaries…
LAGOS APRIL 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-In a landmark move that sets a new benchmark for customer-focused banking in Nigeria, Sterling Bank has championed the cancellation of bank transfer fees by major banks, announcing it will no longer take any money for itself for any local online transactions by its customers. The announcement made on April 1 initially…
LAGOS MARCH 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, has approached the Federal High Court in Abuja, begging it to stop the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, from selling off all the properties seized from her. The erstwhile minister in the legal action she filed through a team of lawyers, led by…
LAGOS MARCH 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former governor of Kaduna State, Nasir el-Rufai, has appealed to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar; former Anambra State governor and 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi; former Osun State governor, Rauf Aregbesola and former Transport Minister, Rotimi Amaechi, to join the Social Democratic Party (SDP). El-Rufai also…
LAGOS MARCH 6TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-Former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Olabode George, yesterday, called on all stakeholders in the party not to contemplate allowing the former Vice President and presidential candidate of the party in 2019 and 2023, Atiku Abubakar, to again emerge as the flag bearer in 2027. George, in a…
