LAGOS FEBRUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Director-General of the World Trade Organisation, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has applauded a large number of voters for coming out en masse to vote in the Presidential and National Assembly elections on Saturday. Okojo-Iweala made the revelation at her polling unit in Umuda Isingwu village, Umuahia, Abia state. The WTO DG, however,…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A young man simply identified as Akayama has been gunned down at Anyigba, in Dekina Local Government Area of Kogi State. The victim was killed by thugs who invaded the town to cart away electoral materials. The incident happened at about 11am on Saturday. The thugs took over the town, shooting sporadically…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Peoples Democratic Party Chairman for the FCT, Sunday Zaka, is dead. A family member who pleaded anonymity because he was not authorized to announced it confirmed the development to Vanguard on Saturday. He said, “Our brother, the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) Chairman in the Federal Capital Territory, died in a motor…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two eligible aged male voters were yet to know their fate as the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System (BVAS) was unable to capture them at Old Reading Road, Ondo State. The two aged men were 80-year-old Akintunubo Thompson and 75-year-old Adewuyi Ogundinakin who could not be captured by BVAS at Polling Unit 001,…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Craving change, Nigerians streamed out to vote Saturday in what many hope would be fairer election for a new leader who would deliver the country from widespread insecurity and economic malaise. From poor neighbourhoods of the economic capital Lagos to the dusty streets of second city Kano in the northwest, Nigerian voters…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Five people are dead, including a patient and medical personnel, after a Care Flight plane crashed late Friday in Nevada. The incident occurred at approximately 9:15 p.m. when the Lyon County Dispatch Center began receiving multiple calls regarding a possible plane crash near Stagecoach, Nevada — about 45 miles east of Reno,…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The police in Gombe State on Saturday confirmed an attack on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)’s ad hoc staff camped at the Tudunwada Primary School, in Gombe metropolis. Mr Oqua Etim, the Commissioner of Police in Gombe confirmed the attack in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A video currently circulating online has captured the moment supporters of the labor party presidential aspirant, Peter Gregory Obi were allegedly seen at 2 am sleeping at their Polling Unit The day of the election has finally arrived when Nigerians will be given the opportunity whosoever to exercise their franchise by voting…