LAGOS MARCH 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Personnel of the 9 Brigade of the Nigerian Army, yesterday, recovered 1,671 Permanent Voters Cards, PVCs, in an apartment in the Olodi-Apapa area of Lagos State. Three persons were subsequently arrested in the apartment, while the prime suspect was said to be on the run. Also recovered in the apartment were ballot…
LAGOS MARCH 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Chatham House, an independent policy institute based in London, has stated in an analysis by one of its fellows that the February 25 presidential election showed that the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC failed to learn new lessons. The London-based institute stressed that the electoral umpire failed to adhere to its own…
LAGOS MARCH 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, has insisted that the presidential election held on February 25 was won by the candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi, and not the candidate of the All Progressive Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. It, therefore, said that the decision of Obi to challenge the results…
LAGOS MARCH 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 37-year-old man, identified as Artur B., hacked his 100-year-old grandmother, Amalie G., to death using an axe. The incident happened on Monday in Hamburg, Germany, according to a Daily Mail report on Wednesday. Chief Public Prosecutor Liddy Oechtering told a local news platform, “According to the preliminary autopsy result, it can…
LAGOS MARCH 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Anything that would reduce Lagos from being a city open to everybody, detracts from its Centre of Excellence status and therefore unacceptable, Babjide Sanwo-Olu, Governor of the state, said on Wednesday. A guest of The Morning Show, a breakfast programme on Arise Television, Sanwo-Olu, who condemned the attack on certain residents in the…
LAGOS MARCH 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent National Electoral Commission has officially postponed the March 11, 2023 Governorship and States Houses of Assemblies elections. National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, confirmed this. In a statement late on Wednesday, Okoye said: “Following today’s ruling by the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (EPT) on the…
LAGOS MARCH 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Presidential Election Petition Court sitting at the Court of Appeal in Abuja, on Wednesday, granted the request of the Independent National Electoral Commission to reconfigure the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System it used for the presidential election. The court, in a unanimous decision by a three-member panel of justices, held that preventing…
LAGOS MARCH 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Appeal Court in Abuja has granted the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, access to inspect electoral materials used by the Independent National Electoral Commission during February 25, 2022, general elections. The PUNCH reports that Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, on Tuesday, urged the Court of Appeal in Abuja to order INEC…
