LAGOS FEBRUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former President of South Africa, H.E. Thabo Mbeki, will lead a team of Commonwealth election observers to Nigeria, which will be holding Africa’s largest democratic exercise later this month when it holds general elections on 25 February 2023. Commonwealth Secretary-General, the Rt Hon Patricia Scotland KC, constituted the Commonwealth Observer Group following…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has accused his All Progressives Congress (APC) counterpart, Bola Tinubu of sponsoring a multi-million naira fake documentary against him. Obi, in a statement by the Head of Media of the Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Council, Diran Onifade, said the documentary is an attempt…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A loud whir fills the back of a print shop in Nigeria’s capital Abuja as machines churn out grinning faces of presidential election frontrunners. The country’s election advertizing campaign season is in full throttle. The run-up to a vote is usually a chance for small businesses like Shimatex Prints to cash in…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 15 Nigerian Muslim pilgrims on their way to Senegal were killed when gunmen in Burkina Faso attacked the buses transporting them, Nigeria’s presidency said on Monday. “President Muhammadu Buhari has received the tragic news of the murder,” the State House said in a statement without providing a number of…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The present scarcity of new naira notes in the country has crashed prices of chickens at Nsukka by over fifty percent. A survey conducted by The Whistler at Ikpa market of the university community on Monday shows that the dealers are having ‘bad market’ as they are forced to sell at highly…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Three state governors — from Kaduna, Kogi and Zamfara in the north of the country — all belonging to the ruling party sued the federal government, seeking the suspension of the central bank’s plan that has caused a cash crisis and disrupted transactions in Africa’s largest economy. The governors appealed to the…