LAGOS MARCH 26TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-The Taliban’s Supreme Leader has vowed to start stoning women to death in public as he declared the fight against Western democracy will continue. “You say it’s a violation of women’s rights when we stone them to death,” said Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada in a voice message, aired on state television over the…
LAGOS MARCH 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Bola Tinubu on Monday expressed readiness to end the perennial farmers, herders crisis in the country. Tinubu vowed to draw up programmes that would end the crisis within two to three weeks. He spoke during the inauguration of the mechanised agricultural project in Minna, Niger State. The President, however, noted that…
LAGOS JANUARY 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-This was the day that President Joe Biden and his team had feared for more than three months, the day that relatively low-level attacks by Iranian proxy groups on U.S. troops in the Middle East turned deadly and intensified the pressure on the president to respond in kind. With three U.S. service…
LAGOS MARCH 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent National Electoral Commission has vowed to punish its officials, including ad-hoc or collation personnel, who may have been found wanting in the conduct of the Saturday, February 25 Presidential and National Assembly Elections. INEC chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, disclosed this on Saturday in Abuja at a meeting with Resident Electoral…
LAGOS DECEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The anti-establishment candidate for Nigeria’s presidency will reform its system of costly subsidies and unify the local naira currency’s multiple exchange rates if elected in February, his manifesto released on Sunday showed. Nigeria operates multiple exchange rates that allow some companies to get dollars cheaply while the majority of forex buyers pay…
LAGOS AUGUST 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Addressing a packed audience at the prestigious Beverly Hilton Los Angeles flag off of his US speaking tour, Gov Peter Obi vowed to increase electricity generation in Nigeria or quit office after his first term as president. The Labor Party’s presidential candidate who had just flown in from Toronto, Canada described countries…
LAGOS JULY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, says efforts have been intensified by the ministry to recover to over N37 billion debts owed by airlines in the country. The minister made this known at the weekly ministerial press briefing organised by the Presidential Communication Team at the presidential villa, Abuja, on Thursday. Sirika…
LAGOS JANUARY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The United States has said it will take action against anti-democratic forces and human rights abusers in Uganda following Thursday’s general elections in the country. The U.S. position came in a statement by the Department of State through its spokesperson, Ms Morgan Ortagus, on Saturday. Ortagus said the government was “deeply troubled”…