LAGOS JULY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The United Nations on Wednesday warned that public and private actors are intervening against online content in ways that curtail rights and muzzle criticism. “You see a digital world that is unwelcoming and frequently unsafe for people trying to exercise their rights,” said Peggy Hicks of the UN Rights Office in Geneva….
LAGOS FEBRUARY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Controversial Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi has accused the Nigerian government of knowing the hideouts of killer herdsmen and bandits. Gumi said the federal government identifies the bandits and killer herdsmen through its aerial view. The cleric made the allegations on a Channels Television Programme, Politics Today. Gumi said the government was…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Popular Yoruba rights activist Chief Sunday Adeyemo a.k.a Sunday Igboho has declared he has what it takes to fight against Boko Haram without the government’s support. Igboho made this declaration in a video interview released in 2020. He said: “That which I will use in the fight against Boko Haram, I have…
LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The immediate past chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega, has taken a swipe at the Buhari administration, describing its performance as disappointing. Speaking in an exclusive interview with Daily Trust on Sunday, Jega, who conducted the election that ushered in President Muhmmadu Buhari in 2015, said the…