LAGOS FEBRUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGRS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has won Ekiti state, the first officially declared presidential election result by Independent National Electoral Commission. In the result announced by the returning officer, Professor Idowu Olayinka, vice chancellor of the University of Ibadan, Buhari of the All Progressives Congress polled 219,231 votes, while Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Bayelsa State Governor, the Honourable Seriake Dickson has accused the military authorities particularly the General Officer Commanding, 6th Division of the Nigerian Army of subverting the will of the people in the electoral process in the state. Dickson who made the accusation during a Media chat in Yenagoa, decried unlawful orders issued…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A section of the Independent National Electoral Commission Office in Ijebu-Ijesha, Oriade Local Government in Osun State has been gutted by fire. The incident occurred around 3am on Sunday. The News Agency of Nigeria gathered that some hoodlums suspected to be political thugs allegedly set a section of the building ablaze along…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A nightmare came true for one family in Florida when a plane fell from the sky and crashed through the roof of a home. The pilot of the flight was killed, but a trainee pilot and eight people inside the home all walked away with minor injuries. “It was the day of…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Senior Special Adviser on Security Matters to Akwa Ibom State Governor Udom Emmanuel, Capt Iniobong Ekong, has been reportedly abducted. It was gathered that Ekong was picked up midnight Friday allegedly by soldiers, following a purported petition written by the immediate past Governor, Senator Godswill Akpabio. The State Commissioner for Information,…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An agent of the Peoples Democratic Party in Rivers State has been shot dead. The agent was shot dead as the Presidential and National Assembly elections got underway on Saturday. The major opposition party in the state, All Progressives Congress, is not on the ballot for the National Assembly elections as it…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The vice-presidential candidate of the PDP, Mr Peter Obi, has described INEC’s processes for the presidential and national assembly elections as clumsy. Obi told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday at his Amatutu Ward 2 voting centre at Agulu in the Anaocha Local Government Area of Anambra that it took…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 24TH (NESRANGERS)-The Deputy President of the Senate, Chief Ike Ekweremadu says the security arrangements put in place for the presidential and National Assembly elections are laudable. The deputy senate president said this on Saturday in Enugu shortly after casting his vote in Mpu Ward III, Aninri Local Government Area of the state. Ekweremadu…