LAGOS MAY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-To the obvious embarrassment of President Muhammadu Buhari, Nigerian workers on Monday celebrated Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi at the Eagle Square gathering of the May Day celebration. GWG.ng reports that President Buhari is being represented by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr Boss Mustapha. Among senior officials…
LAGOS MAY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-One of the buses conveying stranded Nigerians from Khartoum, Sudan, to Port Sudan caught fire in the early hours of Monday, The PUNCH learnt. 26 buses conveying the stranded Nigerians left Al Razi around 12 am on Monday for Port Sudan where they will move into Saudi Arabia. According to the Chairman, Nigerians…
LAGOS MAY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A 35-year-old mechanic, Akinola Olatunji, has landed in trouble after one of his colleagues allegedly bolted away with a vehicle belonging to a client and had remained incommunicado. The Point gathered that Olatunji, who operates at the popular Ajegunle motor spare parts market in Osogbo, capital of Osun State, was given a…
LAGOS MAY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s President-elect, Bola Tinubu, on Monday, promised to join forces with Nigerian workers to ensure better welfare and working conditions, vowing “workers will have more than a minimum wage.” He also urged support for his soon-to-begin administration in fighting poverty, ignorance, disease, disunity, ethnic and religious hate, which he described as “common”…
LAGOS MAY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Protesters clashed with security forces across France on Monday as hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets for labour day to vent their anger against President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform. Unions had been hoping for a vast turnout across France for the May 1 protests to further rattle Macron, who…
LAGOS MAY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Interpol has summoned Adamawa Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) Hudu Yunusa-Ari over his alleged misconduct in the state’s April 14 supplementary elections. A letter from the Interpol said Mr Yunusa Ari should report to the National Central Bureau in Abuja for questioning. “The bureau is investigating a case of conduct likely to cause…
LAGOS MAY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Labour Party, LP, presidential candidate, Peter Obi has vowed to reclaim his alleged stolen mandate in court. Obi vowed to explore every legal option in ensuring he reclaims his mandate. The former Anambra State governor spoke during an LP stakeholders’ meeting in Awka. Recall that Obi came third during the last…
LAGOS MAY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-As the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) marks his last May Day in office today, labour unions have scored the regime and state governors low, saying they pauperised workers and inflicted hardship on Nigerians. They lamented the galloping inflation in the country which they said had eroded the 40 per cent…