LAGOS DECEMER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Presidency has dismissed the recent utterances by former president Olusegun Obasanjo, as a sign of confusion not worthy of attention. Speaking to journalists in Abuja on Wednesday, presidential spokesperson, Garba Shehu, said that whoever Obasanjo chooses to support at the 2019 elections is irrelevant, as the former president had publicly changed…
LAGOS DECEMBER 15TH (NEWRANGERS)-The Yoruba Self Determination Advancement Forum has said the group will liase with other ethnic nationalities in Lagos State to rescue the state from what it described as Asiwaju Bola Tinubu hegemony ahead of the 2019 elections. The forum’s convener, Kunle Adesokan, said this at an event in Lagos on Wednesday where…
LAGOS DECEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There was pandemonium on Thursday at Trinity area of Apapa, Lagos when a policeman shot dead a tanker driver. Trouble started when the policeman allegedly demanded for a toll of N1000 from the tanker driver who said he could only afford N500. Our reporter gathered that the refusal of the driver did…
LAGOS DECEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government has revealed its plans to establish regional geriatric centres at tertiary health institutions for clinical care and extend free healthcare services to Nigerians over the age of 60 years, in line with the declaration of the Plan of Action on Healthy Ageing by 2020. This was disclosed by President…
LAGOS DECEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGRS)-Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has travelled with a delegation of other lawmakers to the United States of America to attend President Donald Trump’s ‘Strategy for Africa’ to be unveiled on Thursday, December 13, 2018. In a statement signed by the Senate President’s spokesperson, Yusuph Olaniyonu, the US president’s new strategy for Africa…
LAGOS DECEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-To strengthen capacity in pharmaceutical profession in Lagos State, Governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the coming election Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu has assured members of the pharmaceutical society of Nigeria (PSN) that he will ensure that Lagos State University (LASU) gets faculty of Pharmacy if elected as the Governor. Sanwo-Olu…
LAGOS DECEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibadan Office has arraigned twenty four students of Olabisi Onabanjo University and the National Open University of Nigeria who were arrested for alleged involvement in various cyber crimes. Ten of the defendants which include: Agboola Taiwo, Adetayo Tade Ademiluyi, Rabiu Daniel, Sokoya Oluwaseyi, Fredrick Shaibu,…
LAGOS DECEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Peter Obi, has advised that fighting corruption should not be regarded as an economic policy, arguing that once strong institutions are built, that it will automatically put a wedge to corruption. Obi was speaking on Wednesday in Enugu at the 3rd…