LAGOS APRIL 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Port Harcourt-bound Aero Contractors aircraft, on Wednesday morning, developed fault mid-air and had to return to Abuja for emergency landing. A passenger on the plane exclusively told LEADERSHIP that the aircraft took off at about 8:40am but few minutes into the flight, the pilot announced he had to return back to […]
LAGOS APRIL 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) is in trouble after allegedly collecting princely sums as bribes from an out-going governor. The said REC, it was learnt, was taking orders from the governor contrary to his oath of office. The governor attempted to smuggle in the ballot papers he printed for the March 18 governorship […]
LAGOS APRIL 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria has secured $800 million from the World Bank to scale up its national social program ahead of the removal of its costly but popular subsidies on petrol in June, Finance Minister Zainab Ahmed said on Wednesday. Africa’s biggest economy set aside 3.36 trillion naira ($7.3 billion) this year to spend on […]
LAGOS APRIL 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The journalist who published the alleged phone conversation between the Labour Party’s (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi, and the General Overseer of the Living Faith Church, Bishop David Oyedepo, has been suspended. Peoples Gazette suspended Ayoola Babalola on Tuesday for online behavior that violated the newspaper’s social media policy and called […]
LAGOS APRIL 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Olisa Agbakoba (SAN), a former President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), has chastised the Federal Government over the treason charge leveled against Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate Peter Obi. WITHIN NIGERIA reported that the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, had warned Peter Obi against inciting Nigerians to violence over the outcome of the presidential election. […]
LAGOS APRIL 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Lawmakers from different political parties in the minority caucus on Tuesday met to pull an upset against the All Progressives Congress (APC). The lawmakers converged at Transcorp Hilton in Abuja and deliberated on ways to pull their numbers together to decide the next Speaker of the House. Elected lawmakers from the Peoples […]
LAGOS APRIL 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party in the last presidential election, Mr. Peter Obi, has said that he was saddened, on reading the press statement by the Nigerian Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed. The Minister had, in a press statement, accused Mr Peter Obi and his Deputy, Sen. Baba Datti-Ahmed, […]
LAGOS APRIL 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Senate on Tuesday frowned on the continuous stay in the mortuary of the remains of a former Senate President, Joseph Wayas, 14 months after he died in a London hospital. Wayas, who was a senator in the Second Republic, died on November 20, 2021 after hospitalisation at the London hospital and […]
LAGOS APRIL 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The electoral commission, INEC, deliberately withheld the real-time upload of presidential election results from polling units, information minister Lai Mohammed said, according to a report by the government-owned News Agency of Nigeria. Mr Mohammed said INEC’s decision to withhold the upload was because of a suspected cyberattack. “INEC, suspecting cyberattack, withheld the […]
LAGOS APRIL 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The presidential candidate of the Labour Party at the 2023 elections, Peter Obi has reacted to the treason allegation leveled against him by the Federal Government. Obi made the rebuttal in reaction to an allegation of treason raised against him by the federal government through the minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed. […]
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