LAGOS APRIL 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-World football governing body, FIFA, at the weekend warned that it would not consult with any of the parties battling for the leadership of the Nigeria Football Federation before throwing the country out of the game if it found that a third party has been meddling in the nation’s football affairs. The…
LAGOS APRIL 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Financial Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) in Ekiti, Mr Kayode Oni, has been kidnapped by unknown gunmen. Oni was said to have been abducted on a spot on the Efon Alaaye-Erio-Ekiti federal highway while returning to his home, Aramoko Ekiti, headquarters of Ekiti West Local Government area late on Saturday….
By Eze Onyekpere LAGOS APRIL 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The failed recall of Senator Dino Melaye on Saturday provides an opportunity for lessons to be drawn from the implementation of the recall constitutional provisions. Out of 189,870 signatories to the petition for Melaye’s recall, only 18,742 were verified by the Independent National Electoral Commission. This is a paltry…
LAGOS APRIL 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than two thousands protesting Christian members of ECWA Goodnews Church shut down major streets in Jos, Plateau state capital. The were protesting the killings of Christians by suspected Fulani herdsmen. The protesters led by the Senior Pastor, ECWA Goodnews Church in Ahmadu Bello Way, Jos, Rev. Joshua Tuwan took the…
LAGOS APRIL 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A breakaway Boko Haram faction known as the Islamic State in West Africa has seized some towns in Borno and Yobe states, providing protection to Muslim residents and collecting taxes from them, Reuters reports. The Federal Government and the Defence Headquarters (DHQ) have, however, described the report as a tissue of lies….
Chief Sunny Onuesoke is a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Delta State, and former governorship aspirant. In this interview he bears his mind on some key issues in the country. Excerpts: The Senate and House of Representatives have summoned President Buhari to address a joint session of National Assembly on the raging…
LAGOS APRIL 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There was a heavy clash between supporters of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and those of the All Progressives Congress (APC) outside the VIP arrival hall of the Benin city airport Friday evening, over a senator’s anti Buhari comment at the Senate. Security operatives, led by the Edo State Police Commissioner, Mr….
LAGOS APRIL 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Senator representing Edo South in the National Assembly, Matthew Urhoghide, yesterday revealed what happened to him after he moved the motion for President Muhammadu Buhari’s impeachment. The Senator who said he has no regrets for moving the motion, alleged that the Chief of Staff to Governor Obaseki, Taiwo Akerele, mobilized thugs tojustassault…
