LAGOS JANUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Members of the organised private sector (OPS) have advised the federal government to make deliberate efforts to remove impediments to the conduct of business in the country in 2022, especially with respect to clearing of goods at the ports, stressing that its war clearing goods at the country’s seaports. Also, following President…
LAGOS JANUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-One of the leading candidates in the 1993 Presidential election, Alhaji Bashir Tofa, is dead. He was the Presidential Candidate of the defunct National Republican Convention and a major challenger of MKO Abiola’s in the controversial June 12, 1993, presidential election, annulled by the military government of General Ibrahim Babangida. Family sources…
LAGOS JANUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Despite the ongoing debate among Nigeria intelligentsia and pro-democracy activists for its passage and assent in the Electoral Amendment Bill, the Inter-Party Advisory Council, a pressure group of the 18 registered political parties on Monday advised otherwise. While warning that Nigeria does not yet have the political maturity for its take off…
LAGOS JANUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Vice-Presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party in the 2019 election, Mr. Peter Obi, has described the past year, 2021, as difficult for Nigerians in all ramifications. Answering questions from the Press yesterday at the Sam Mbakwe International Airport, Owerri on what is needed for Nigeria to move on in the…
By Olawale Olaleye LAGOS JANUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There was a mild drama, and one which typified the Nigerian story yesterday at Magodo Brooks, an estate situated on CMD road, Ikosi, part of Kosofe Local Government. The Commissioner of Police, Mr. Hakeem Odumosu, had a function to attend in the estate but was delayed by security guards…
LAGOS JANUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An angry mob, on Sunday, set ablaze two vehicles belonging to officials of the Nigeria Customs Service (NSC) in Sokoto state, after four persons were killed in a road mishap that involved three commercial vehicles. “One of the drivers was carrying goods like rice and vegetables from the Illela border and eventually…
LAGOS JANUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-One of the lawyers of self-determination campaigner, Sunday Adeyemo (aka Sunday Igboho), Pelumi Olajengbesi, yesterday, withdrew from the agitator’s legal team. Olajengbesi, the Managing Partner, Law Corridor, in a terse statement on his official Facebook page, announced his withdrawal. His resignation followed a statement by the umbrella body of Yoruba Self-Determination Groups,…
LAGOS JANUARY 4TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-Governors and other visitors to the Presidential Villa, Abuja, will henceforth, take rapid COVID-19 test to be allowed into the seat of power, the Presidency said in a new regime of protocol it announced yesterday. The regulation will be applied on visitors to President Muhammadu Buhari and any other visitor to the…
