LAGOS FEBRUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Labour party has said it has deployed over 600,000 polling unit scouts across the country to monitor activities that do not conform to the electoral process and alert it’s leadership. The scouts are to particularly raise alarm of any vote buying for immediate resistance by the Nigerian people with support from…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Seven people are feared to have died following a clash involving supporters of political parties in Kano state. TheCable had earlier reported that some youths, who identified themselves as Kwankwasiyya supporter paraded through the streets of Kano state with machetes and sticks. Kwankwasiyya supporters are persons backing Rabiu Kwankwaso, the presidential candidate…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), has condemned the killing of Oyibo Chukwu, the party’s candidate for Enugu east senatorial district. Chukwu was reportedly killed and set ablaze at Amechi Awkunanaw in Enugu south LGA on Wednesday after gunmen opened fire on his convoy. Five of his supporters…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Enugu State Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Ammani, has ordered the manhunt for the killers of the Enugu East senatorial candidate of the Labour Party for Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly elections. The Labour Party Senatorial candidate, Oyibo Chukwu, who was the former chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association, was attacked and…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As Nigerians head to the polls on Saturday, 87.2 million voters have been cleared to participate in the crucial exercise. Data released by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Thursday show that 93.5 million Nigerians were registered to participate in the presidential and national assembly election as well as the governorship…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In the leadup to Nigeria’s General Elections which are to take place on Saturday February 25th, the Commonwealth Secretary-General, the Rt Hon Patricia Scotland KC, arrived in Abuja for the signing of the National Peace Accord. This is Nigeria’s 7th presidential election since its return to democratic rule in 1999, and with…
By Godman Akinlabi LAGOS FEBRUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In a matter of hours, Nigerians will head to the polls in what seems like the most polarising election the country has ever had. Ethnic and religious fault lines have come to the fore again, threatening to snap the thin thread that holds Nigeria together delicately. In a frantic…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Burkina Faso’s most famous revolutionary Thomas Sankara has been reburied in the capital by the military junta – despite his widow and children boycotting the funeral. Sankara was laid to rest at the spot where he was assassinated in 1987. His immediate family wanted the reburial at a site that would “appease…