LAGOS APRIL 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent national Electoral Commission (INEC) has suspended voters registration exercise in areas of Imo, Anambra and Kaduna states. INEC Chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu who made the pronouncement yesterday at the Second Regular Quarterly Consultative Meeting with Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) held at Abuja said following report of insecurity in some areas…
LAGOS APRIL 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A presidential aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr Peter Obi, has said he will initiate policies and programmes that will transform Nigeria from a “consumption economy to productive one”. Obi said this on Thursday, when he came for consultation with Abia PDP chieftains at the state Secretariat in Umuahia. He…
LAGOS APRIL 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A tanker said to be loaded with petrol has crashed and exploded at Ajegunle Bus-Stop, Alagbado, on the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway. Several houses, among other property, were said to have been burnt in the inferno, as men of the state fire service and the police were deployed in the area. The incident happened…
LAGOS APRIL 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Peter Obi, former Governor of Anambra State and presidential aspirant under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has emerged as the most preferred presidential aspirant in the upcoming Nigeria general elections scheduled for February 2023. This result is from a survey conducted by Nextier, a multi-competency advisory firm, and Data-Tier, a data analytics…
LAGOS APRIL 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A pressure group, Peter Obi Support Network, POSN, has called on former Vice President Abubakar Atiku to discontinue his quest for the presidency and support the aspiration of a former governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi. It said the call was informed by the need to ensure equity in the affairs…
LAGOS APRIL 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A former head coach of Nigeria, Gernot Rohr has dragged the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) before FIFA and is awaiting a ruling on a $1m compensation claim for unfair dismissal, BBC Africa reports. Rohr was fired in December, weeks for the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon. The German is the…
LAGOS APRIL 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Islamic State claimed responsibility for an explosion that it said killed or injured 30 people at a market where alcohol was sold in Taraba State, Nigeria, marking an expansion of the area where the extremist group operates in the country. Northeast Nigeria, especially the states of Borno and Yobe, have been in…
LAGOS APRIL 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Popular talent manager Tunji Balogun better known as Teebillz, has vowed to organise a world tour that will bring together three of Nigeria’s very popular Afrobeats artistes, Burna Boy, Davido and Wizkid. According to Teebillz, a world tour with these three Afrobeats super stars that have been stamping the genre all over…