LAGOS SEPTEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As the 91 political parties in the country are jostling to produce candidates in their primaries to contest against each other in the 2019 elections, the Delta State Chairman of All Grand Alliance Party (AGAP) has predicted that the Party will produce the next Governor of Delta .State. Delta State AGAP Chairman,…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-: Rector of Times Journalism Institute (TJI) Mr Ndubuisi Ugbede will on Saturday, September 15, lead old students of the renowned journalism school to a reunion session in Lagos. Confirming this, the interim National Coordinator, Times Journalism Institute (TJI) Alumni Association, Mr. Remmy Nweke, said Ugbede aside confirming attendance, also endorsed the…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-After a protracted battle with the ruling party, speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara, has finally defected from the All Progressives Congress (APC) to seek re-election on the platform of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Dogara, Our reporter gathered reliably from his close associates that he secretly bought…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Boko Haram insurgents have taken control of Damasak, a town in Mobbar Local Government Area, some 186km away from Maiduguri, SaharaReporters can report. The development comes one day after Tukur Buratai, Chief of Army Staff (COAS), visited the town to address the 134 battalion. Military sources told SaharaReporters that after the COAS’s…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The chairman of a local government and the chairmen of three local council development associations are among a number of All Progressives Congress (APC) members and leaders in Lagos State who endorsed Akinwunmi Ambode, Governor of the state, for second term on Wednesday. According to Habib Haruna, the Chief press Secretary to…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An undergraduate of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), Nura Iliyasu, has reportedly embarked on a one-man protest by climbing to the top of a 50-meter-mast in Abuja to object to alleged bad leadership of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration. Iliyasu, 26, will spend the next seven days starting from today,…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) hinted yesterday that it might be compelled to suspend the 2019 general election following threats to violence by some politicians in the country. Chairman of the commission, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, who stated this, was reacting to some disturbing videos of political campaigns in the social media…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode on Wednesday totally played down speculation of rift with the National Leader of All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, saying reports to such effect were untrue. Both the social and traditional media have been flooded with news of a major rift between Tinubu and Governor…