LAGOS SEPTEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore, says Nigeria will export marijuana if he gets elected as president of the country. He said people are making billions from the plant while Nigeria lags behind. The presidential aspirant for the 2019 election said this while speaking at an event organised by Centre for…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 6TH(NEWSRANGERS)-A pro- Niger Delta group, the Niger Delta Oil Communities Agenda, NIDOCA, has advised persons being sponsored to smear the image and reputation of Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr Ibe Kachikwu, over non existing case of corruption to desist forthwith. The NIDOCA, in a statement issued by Comrade Emmanuel Akpovoka, Secretary…
By Amos Odeh The Bayelsa State Government has taken its safe motherhood campaign to churches with a call on Christian Leaders in the state to engage their members on the benefits of the initiative. At a meeting with the Christian Leaders in Yenagoa, the Deputy Governor, Rear Admiral Gboribiogha John Jonah (rtd) said the government…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former governor of Kano State, Ibrahim Shekarau, has denied claims by his spokesman, Sule Ya’u, that he has defected from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressive Congress (APC). It will be recall that Ya’u, on Monday, told BBC Hausa that his boss dumped the PDP due to the…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Kano State Government has confirmed that nine people have been killed and five others injured following recent flood disaster in nine Local Government Areas of the state. The Executive Secretary of the State Emergency Relief and Rehabilitation Agency, Alhaji Ali Bashir, disclosed this in an interview with newsmen in Kano, on…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 6H (NEWSRANGERS)-The All Progressives Congress (APC) may gradually be losing its place as the ruling party as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has announced the looming defection of more of its governors and federal lawmakers to the opposition party. The PDP, in a statement on Wednesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan,…
– LAGOS SEPTEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Some Nigerians have taken to Twitter to express their different views following the Presidency’s announcement on Wednesday that “a group of good Nigerians” purchased N45 million worth presidential nomination forms for President Muhammadu Buhari while he was away in China. President Buhari’s Special Assistant on New Media, Bashir Ahmad, tweeted photos…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)- An alarming figure of 1, 086 teenage Nigerians have tested positive for HIV/AIDS in Nasarawa State, says the Nasarawa State AIDS Control Agency. The HIV/AIDs positive teenagers aged 14 to 19 were discovered following a test and counseling session carried out on 75, 435 youths in the state. Dr. Ruth Adabe,…