LAGOS FEBRUARY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Minister of Communications, Barrister Adebayo Shittu has questioned the moral justification of the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole to call for the resignation of the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof Mahmood Yakubu. Oshiomhole has during the NEC meeting of the APC spoken tough…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Government has expressed displeasure over the alarming, incessant arrest and deportation of Nigerians from Ghana in the last one year. The position of the Nigerian Government was made known by Ambassador Olufemi Abikoye, the Nigerian High Commissioner to Ghana. Abikoye said this during a meeting with the Comptroller-General of the…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Information Communication Technology (ICT) has revealed why the integrity of Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) to be use for the 2019 general election cannot be guaranteed. He said the integrity of the PVCs cannot be guaranteed due to the background of the contractor, who is a chieftain of the ruling All Progressives Congress…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Politicians, human rights activists, lawyers and prominent Nigerians on Monday attacked President Muhammadu Buhari for declaring that death awaited ballot box snatchers during the February 23 Presidential and National Assembly elections. Buhari had early on Monday while speaking at a national caucus meeting of the All Progressives Congress in Abuja, said ballot…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) in Rivers State have recovered 31 Electronic Card Readers (ECRs) believed to have been stolen from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The SRCs were recovered in a bush on Rumuji-Emohua axis of the East-West Road in the Southsouth state. They were allegedly thrown into…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has arrested Mr. Uyiekpen Giwa-Osagie, one of the lawyers to the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. The arrest, according to a former aide to former president Goodluck Jonathan, Mr. Reno Omokri, was made last night in Lagos. According to…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The immediate past Chairman of the United States House of Representatives’ Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, Representative Chris Smith, has blamed President Muhammadu Buhari over the delay in conducting 2019 general election. In a statement issued yesterday, he said: “Responsibility for the delay of Nigeria’s presidential election lays squarely with President Muhammadu…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Some yet-to-be-identified members of staff of Ikeja Electric have been assaulted by a resident of Itele area of the Iju-Atan Ilogbo Local Council Development Area of Ogun State while trying to disconnect power supply to his residence. In a viral online video, the resident engaged one of the technicians in a fist…