LAGOS JULY 22ND (NEWRANGERS)-The Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, has ordered the immediate commencement of a 72-hour joint operation to restore sanity around Apapa and environs. This comes after activities of truck drivers had caused traffic gridlock and made vehicular movement around the axis near impossible over the past few days. Prof. Osinbajo who made…
LAGOS JULY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Davido’s Uncle and the lawmaker representing Osun West district in the National Assembly, Senator Ademola Adeleke, has won the governorship primary election of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state. The Chairman of the Election Committee and Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson, declared the lawmaker the winner on Saturday after he…
LAGOS JULY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Governor of Kano state Abdullahi Ganduje said three million children are out of school in his state alone, stressing the need to curb Africa’s population explosion. Speaking at Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House, UK, Ganduje noted that, population explosion in Africa is a reality and education is not matching up…
LAGOS JULY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-An accident involving the motorcade of the Minister of Youth and Sports, Solomon Dalong has led to the death of one person while 20 others sustained various degree of injuries. Mr Sunday Jika, the Officer-in-Charge (OC) Gombe State Marshal, a local security outfit, who was amongst the minister’s motorcade confirmed this to…
LAGOS JULY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Last Saturday’s election in Ekiti state has been concluded, but the controversies trailing same, especially monetary inducements of voters, are yet to die down, as some of the voters themselves, in shocking revelation told Saturday Telegraph how they were induced by almost all the parties in the election. Journalists who moved round…
LAGOS JULY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar stood before a cheering crowd in his home state of Adamawa on Saturday, announcing he will seek the Peoples Democratic Party ticket for president next February. Decrying the large-scale killings that have touched many parts of the country in recent months before thousands packed into Yola town…
LAGOS JULY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Governor of Bayelsa State, Henry Seriake Dickson has described the current spate of violence and senseless killings, particularly in the Northern part of the country as the biggest threat to the nation’s cooperate existence, since after the civil war. He faulted the nation’s lopsided federal structure, over centralisation and politicisation of…
LAGOS JULY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 30 persons were killed and dozens missing when Boko Haram insurgents ambushed a convoy of vehicles along the Dikwa-Ngala Road in Ngala Local Government Area Borno State yesterday, sources said. Security agents could not be reached for statement up to the time of filing this report. However, a top…
