LAGOS SEPTEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Investigation by Saturday PUNCH revealed that the representatives of at least one of the contestants were using the WhatsApp social media platform to woo Permanent Voter Card holders, who are residents of Osun State, to sell their votes. This was despite attempts by the Independent National Electoral Commission to curb vote-buying and…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Central Bank of Nigeria has asked all customers of former Skye Bank now Polaris bank, not to fret or panic as their money in the bank is safe. This evening, the apex bank revoked the license of the former Skye bank. The CBN governor, Godwin Emefiele said the decision had been…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Local bank notes worth about $60 million, printed abroad and brought into Liberia in two huge consignments, have “vanished”. The consignments were brought in between November 2017 and August 2018. According to BBC, there were reports that the money left the port in Monrovia, and was accompanied by security agents in March….
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Women numbering over 500, Thursday, protested in Dura Du community of Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau State when the military expanded its search for Major General Mohammed I. Alkali (Rtd), who was declared missing since Monday, September 3. Major General Alkali retired from service as the Chief of Administration, Nigerian…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-All is not well among the members of the Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party over their support for the party’s presidential aspirants, The PUNCH learnt on Thursday. The Board had, at its meeting last week, directed its members to be neutral and not declare any private or public support…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-In June 2016, about 13 months after he was sworn in as Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari published a commentary on the Wall Street Journal; he titled it The Three Changes Nigeria Needs. The then 73-year-old was voted into power on the mantra of change and it was a right move to tell…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the Osun state governorship election, Ademola Adeleke, on Thursday obtained a court order, restraining the police from arresting him. Adeleke had approached a High Court of Justice in Ejigbo, Osun State, after the Police accused him of engaging in examination malpractice and summoned…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday in Abuja met, for the first time, with the newly appointed Director-General of the Department of State Services, Yusuf Magaji Bichi, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. When Bichi was ushered into the president’s office by protocol officials, he was asked by the president if they had met…