LAGOS JANUARY 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An aggrieved soldier of the Nigerian Army has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to address the issue of poor treatment of military personnel sacrificing their lives daily for the country. According to the unnamed soldier in an open letter written on behalf of his colleagues to the President, the reason why some soldiers…
LAGOS AUGUST 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Niger’s democratically elected president, Mohamed Bazoum, who was last Wednesday toppled by his guards, spoke on Friday, after nine days of being held hostage. Mr Bazoum said there there is no justification for the coup that led to his ouster and detention. “This coup, launched against my government by a military faction…
LAGOS JULY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An officer of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCS), formerly Nigerian Prisons Service, has written to President Bola Tinubu to complain about alleged corruption and poor remuneration in the service. According to the aggrieved official, the NCS personnel were being poorly paid and treated unfairly unlike their colleagues in other departments at the…
LAGOS MAY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 69-year-old man named Babatunde Fabiyi was part of the candidates who wrote the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, with the aim of studying medicine at the University of Lagos, information obtained from the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has revealed. Our correspondent gathered that Fabiyi, who picked UNILAG as his first…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 316,071 people have signed an online petition calling on the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and European Union authorities to cancel the visas of the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Mahmood Yakubu, over alleged rigging of last Saturday’s presidential election in favour of the ruling All Progressives…
LAGOS APRIL 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has written to the Chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Senator Abdullahi Adamu, requesting that officials of the agency be given access to conduct drugs integrity tests for politicians seeking political offices in the country. The NDLEA Chairman, Brig-Gen Buba Marwa (Retd) said this…
LAGOS APRIL 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Lagos Lawyer and Activist, Chief (Barr.) Malcolm Emokiniovo Omirhobo has written a letter to the Federal Government of Nigeria condemning the blocking of telephone lines of Nigerians who have not link their National Identity Number (NIN) to their telephone numbers. Omirhobo in a letter dated April 5th, 2022 addressed to the Federal…
LAGOS DECEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The leader of a gang of bandits, Bello Turji, has allegedly written a letter to President Muhammadu Buhari; Zamfara State Governor, Bello Matawalle and the Emir of Shinkafi. Turji, in the letter, said he and his man would like to have a meeting with traditional and religious leaders in Nigeria, adding that…