LAGOS JULY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom has announced his defection from the All Progressives Congress (APC) to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). The governor made the announcement during a meeting with elected local government chairmen and councillors on Wednesday at the Government House Makurdi, hours after protesting youths barred him from traveling to…
LAGOS JULY 35TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man, has put a 2020 timeline on his goal of buying Arsenal, following a report that Alisher Usmanov is exploring a sale of his 30 percent stake. The Financial Times reported on Tuesday, citing sources close to the Russian billionaire, that Usmanov has grown frustrated that the club’s…
LAGOS JULY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Attempt by a suspected kidnapper, who disguised as a mad man to abduct a four-year-old girl from Christ Anointed Church, in Ayobo area of Lagos, during church service, has been foiled leading to his arrest. The suspect, identified simply Jacob Dare (28), according to the father of the girl, Mr Ebhoboghe Rufus,…
LAGOS JULY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The factional group of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, the R- APC, Tuesday hailed the Senators and members of the House of Representatives who dumped the party for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and other political parties. In a statement yesterday by the National Publicity Secretary of the R- APC, Prince…
LAGOS JULY 25TH (NESRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed his total commitment to the values of democracy, freedom of choice as well as total willingness to work with all members of the National Assembly, irrespective of their political party, for the benefit of the nation. In his reaction to the developments Tuesday morning at the National…
LAGOS JULY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiohmole has reiterated that he would not miss sleep for minute over Tuesday’s defection of some members of the National Assembly from the party. It would be recalled that 15 Senators and 37 House of Representatives members, on July 25 announced…