LAGOS JUNE 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said the country is moving towards disaster under President Muhammadu Buhari. Obasanjo, who spoke in an interview with Premium Times, said the economy was unstable, added that the current administration had destroyed the war against corruption, which he said started during his administration. The former Head of…
LAGOS JUNE 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Femi Gbajabiamila, APC Lagos, has been elected speaker of the House of Representatives in the 9th National Assembly. He was the favoured candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). While collation and counting is still on going, Gbajabiamila has surpassed the simple majority of 181 votes of 360 members required to…
LAGOS JUNE 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Torino have completed the capture of Nigeria defender Ola Aina, the club president Urbano Cairo has revealed. The Italian club signed Aina outright from Chelsea for €10m despite Chelsea’s apparent counter-option. The details of Aina’s deal was however not revealed by Cairo. Aina spent last season on loan at Torino from Chelsea…
LAGOS JUNE 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A food seller, Mrs Florence Imoh, 58, was electrocuted at her shop at Ikotun, a Lagos suburb in Igando/Ikotun Local Council Development Area, early on Monday morning. A News Agency of Nigeria correspondent reports that Imoh was discovered by neighbours early on Monday morning lying dead in front of her shop located…
LAGOS JUNE 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)- I felicitate with all lovers of democracy in Nigeria and, in particular, the trail-blazing, tenacious and law-abiding citizens of the Lagos Central Senatorial District who, along with other Lagosians, played such courageous and significant role in the events that made June 12, 1993 historic and consequential. It has taken twenty six…
LAGOS JUNE 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-All Progressives Congress National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on Tuesday appraised Nigeria’s democratic evolution, saying as important as it is, May 29 does not carry the weight of significance that June 12 carries in the country’s democratic sojourn. He said what the country had been commemorating on May 29th of every year…
LAGOS JUNE 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ahmed Lawan, the Senator representing Yobe North constituency, has won the leadership position of the ninth National Assembly. Lawan defeated his opponent Ali-Ndume with 79 votes from the lawmakers, thereby making him the Senate President. His victory was announced by the clerk of the National Assembly, Mohammed Sani-Omolori, who added that 107…
LAGOS JUNE 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Ogun State Area Command, Nigeria Customs Service, says it has generated N1.413bn N1.131bn revenue between 1st to 31st May 2019. It added that it also seized 7000 bags of rice, 372 kegs of vegetable oil (25liters each), 3 units of motorcycles, 5 sacks, 1, 835 pairs of new and 264 pairs…
