LAGOS NOVEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-As 2019 election fever gathers momentum, over 500 pro-Buhari inter-faith clerics, yesterday, gathered at the popular Unity Fountain, Abuja, to continue with the 40 days prayer and fasting they had declared to ensure President Muhammadu Buhari was re-elected next year. The clerics, comprising Christian and Moslem faithful, who gathered with the protection…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The governorship candidate under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos State, Jimi Agbaje, has blamed the State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, for the persistent traffic congestion daily experienced by Lagosians. Agbaje said the governor lacked the authority to mandate the required agencies to fix the roads and manage traffic. He also attributed…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A former governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, a former presidential spokesman and newspaper columnist and TV anchor, Dr. Rueben Abati and Mr. Leke Shittu are being fielded as candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ogun State by the Senator Buruji Kashamu-led faction of the party, after a court…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)– At least 12 civilians were killed in multiple Boko Haram jihadist attacks targeting two villages and a camp for those displaced by the bloody conflict in northeastern Nigeria, civilian militia and residents told AFP Thursday. Jihadists in seven trucks late on Wednesday attacked Bulaburin and Kofa villages as well as a…
LAGOS OCTOBER 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)- Former Ghana Football Association president Kwesi Nyantakyi was handed a life ban from all football-related activities by FIFA on Tuesday following various violations of the governing body’s ethics code, including bribery and corruption. Nyantakyi, a former member of FIFA’s General Council, was found guilty after being filmed by an investigative journalist…
LAGOS OCTOBER 31S (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday in the Presidential Villa held a closed-door meeting with four of the six South-south governors. The meeting which held between 3 and 4p.m., was attended by Governors Nyesom Wike (Rivers), Seriake Dickson (Bayelsa), Udom Emmanuel (Akwa Ibom) and Ifeanyi Okowa (Delta). After the meeting, Dickson who spoke on…
LAGOS OCTOBER 31ST (NEWSRANGER)-An intelligentsia group comprising of no fewer than 200 Professors, going by the name of Anambra Consultative Forum, University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN), has thrown its weight in support of the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and his running mate, the former Governor of Anambra state,…
LAGOS OCTOBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Donald Trump has announced he is going to terminate the right to citizenship for babies born on US soil to non-citizens. The US president, who is taking an increasingly hard-line stance on immigration, said the “process” to end birthright citizenship by executive order is underway, and denied such a fundamental change would…
