LAGOS FEBRUARY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole has said the Supreme Court’s judgment annulling the party’s victory in Bayelsa State lacks the fruit of justice. Oshiomhole said this at a media briefing in Abuja, on Thursday, signaling the party’s intention to challenge the judgment in court. He explained that by […]
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By Jerome-Mario Utomi LAGOS FEBRUARY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-From the approach, the Centre for Peace and Environmental Justice (CEPEJ), a Pan African non-governmental, non-religious, non-political and not-profit civil society organization, utilizes internationally and locally identified strategies, partners with relevant stakeholders within and outside Nigeria, to promote activities geared towards peace building, advocacy for human rights, good governance and gender mainstreaming, sustainable […]
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LAGOS FEBRUARY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s oil production could drop by 35 percent in the next ten years as regulatory uncertainty and costs amid languishing oil prices may prompt oil majors to postpone final investment decisions on three major deepwater projects, consultancy Wood Mackenzie told Reuters on Thursday. OPEC member Nigeria is the largest oil producer in […]
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LAGOS FEBRUARY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nearly 8,000 Cameroon refugees have fled to eastern and southern Nigeria in the past two weeks, the United Nations refugee agency said on Thursday, as violence flared between security forces and separatist insurgents. The spike in refugees, coming in the run-up to last weekend’s general elections, brings the total number of Cameroonians […]
LAGOS FEBRUARY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Supreme Court on Thursday nullified the election of Bayelsa State governor-elect, David Lyon, and his running mate, Biobarakuma Degi-Eremienyo. Justice Mary Peter-Odili, leading a five-man panel, ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to withdraw the Certificate of Return issued to them. The court also ordered INEC to issue fresh certificates […]
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LAGOS FEBRUARY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Wife of Onojie of Ewatto in Esan South-east Local Government of Edo State, Florence Ikhumhen, has been kidnapped along with one of her daughters by unknown gunmen. The queen, who just retired as the Principal of Itohan Grammar School in Benin City, was said to have been abducted on Sunday night along […]
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LAGOS FEBRUARY 13TH (NEWSRANGRS)-The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, as well as some religious leaders on Wednesday called on the Federal Government to allow the South-East to establish their security outfit to be known as Operation Ogbunigwe. This is just as the governors of the zone adopted the community policing programme of the Nigeria […]
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LAGOS FEBRUARY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The patron of Imo Concerned Citizens Forum, Charles Oputa, popularly known as Charly Boy, yesterday, lead street protest in Owerri, Imo State over the Supreme Court judgment that ousted Emeka Ihedioha. Activities in Owerri, Capital of Imo State and its environs were shut down as people closed their businesses and offices to join […]
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LAGOS FEBRUARY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A large crowd of Borno residents, on Wednesday, booed the President Muhammadu Buhari as his convoy drove from the Maiduguri International Airport to the centre of the city. Buhari, upon returning from a five-day trip to Ethiopia for an African Union summit, paid a condolence visit to the North-Eastern state, following a […]
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LAGOS FEBRUARY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-About 16 members of same family were burnt to death by bandits who invaded Bakali village in Fatika District, Giwa Local Government Area of Kaduna State. The bandits, it was learnt invaded the community on Tuesday around 4:00pm and set fire on many bags of grains, vehicles and motorcycles in the village. […]
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