LAGOS JUNE 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)- Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has delivered a damning verdict on most of the Senators and House of Representatives members elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over their roles in the election of National Assembly principal officers on Tuesday. Most of them, he said, betrayed the party…
LAGOS JUNE 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Niger State is no longer what it used to be, a state once adjudged as the most peaceful state in Nigeria. It was once a state where residents could leave their doors open and go to bed, but that period already seems to be long gone. And in Zazzaga community in Munya…
LAGOS JUNE 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen have ambushed and attacked an ambulance conveying medical materials along the boundary between Owo in Ondo State and Edo State. The ambulance is a white Toyota bus conveying some medical personnel and members of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) when it was attacked, Saharareporters report. An impeccable source who spoke…
LAGOS JUNE 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There are indications that the immediate past governor of Lagos State, Akinwunmi Ambode, may be part of President Muhammadu Buhari’s next cabinet. It has, however, been gathered that party men loyal to the National Leader of the ruling party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, may have begun moves to scuttle plan to appoint Ambode…
LAGOS JUNE 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Stadium, Abuja, now renamed Moshood Abiola National Stadium, is in a state of disrepair following the failure of the government to maintain the facility, which has been taken over by weeds. Findings indicate that many facilities at the complex, built at a whopping $360m in 2003, had deteriorated while the…
LAGOS JUNE 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There was pandemonium in the early hours of Saturday as no fewer than four Automated Teller Machines owned by a new generation bank burst in flames and exploded destroying the machines. The incident Vanguard gathered occurred at the an ATM gallery in front of University of Calabar,UNICAL, gate at about 9:00 am…
LAGOS JUNE 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Payment of overhead allowances to lawmakers inaugurated on Tuesday in the first three months will increase their total allowances to N19.89bn, investigations by Saturday PUNCH has shown. The PUNCH had exclusively reported that 469 lawmakers would get N4.68bn as welcome package to sort out accommodation and furniture issues. Further investigations showed that…
LAGOS JUNE 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Managing Director of Niger Delta Development Commission, Professor Nelson Brambaifa, was on Monday invited by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in Abuja, Saturday PUNCH has learnt. Also invited for questioning by the EFCC over alleged financial impropriety was the Executive Director, Finance and Administration of the NDDC, Chris Oyirindah. It…