LAGOS MARCH 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Oil magnet, publisher and winner of Anambra South Senatorial district election, Dr Ifeanyi Ubah has denied stories making the rounds that he has defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC. Ubah has recently been fraternizing and conducting Senate leader, Senator Ahmad Lawan and other senators round Igbo communities and establishments in Lagos…
LAGOS MARCH 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has vowed to prosecute anyone found culpable in the recent building collapses in the country especially in Lagos State. According to him, the incidents have been as a result of professional negligence and therefore, those responsible will face the full wrath of the law. He said this when he…
LAGOS MARCH 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the February 23, 2019 election, Mr. Peter Obi, on Tuesday mourned the passage of renowned poet, writer and administrator, Dr. Gabriel Okara, describing it as the loss of an African literary giant. “Gabriel Okara was not just a celebrated poet but, indeed,…
LAGOS MARCH 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A new public survey released today by Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) reports high levels of corruption in public institutions in Nigeria for the past 5 years. Of the five major public institutions surveyed, the police emerge as the most corrupt, with the power sector identified as the second most corrupt…
LAGOS MARCH 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said it can issue a certificate of return to Sen Ademola Adeleke of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) only if the embattled governor of Osun State, Gboyega Oyetola fails to appeal the judgment of the tribunal that sacked him within 21 days. It would be…
LAGOS MARCH 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, says the ruling party will not cede its leadership positions in the House of Representatives to the opposition. Oshiomhole said this, yesterday, in Abuja at a meeting convened by the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) with newly elected members of the…
LAGOS MARCH 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council has sent a petition to the Inspector General of Police and the Department of State Services asking both agencies to investigate the Peoples Democratic Party over its alleged access to the server of the Independent National Electoral Commission. Director of Strategic Communications of the APC…
LAGOS MARCH 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A mathematics and physics teacher from a secondary school in a remote village in Kenya’s Rift Valley has won the $1 million Global Teacher Prize for 2019, organisers have said. Peter Tabichi, who organisers say gives away 80 percent of his monthly income to the poor, received the prize at a ceremony…