LAGOS JUNE 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Sometime in 2009, ‘Mr’(as he preferred to be addressed) Peter Obi, Governor Of Anambra State at the time, visited Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu and myself at Dallas, Texas. He came to deliver a get well message from Dr Goodluck Jonathan and was billed to attend a black tie event at the Dallas…
LAGOS JUNE 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria Presidential hopeful and Labour Party Presidential candidate, Peter Obi has decided to ignore Fr Ejike Mbaka over his comment on ‘Stingy Man’ Recall that Mbaka while speaking during one of his programmes in Enugu, the cleric maintained that it would be impossible for Obi to become Nigeria’s president, adding that an…
LAGOS JUNE 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerians have come hard on a Catholic priest and Spiritual Director of Adoration Ministry Enugu, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka, for describing Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, as a “stingy man”. While condemning his statement, Nigerians on micro-blogging site, Twitter, claimed that the cleric tagged the presidential candidate a “stingy man” because…
LAGOS JUNE 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A major air accident was averted when an Overland Airways aircraft made an emergency landing at the Murtala Muhammad International Airport, Lagos, from Ilorin International Airport in Kwara State. The incident happened on Wednesday night when one of the engines caught fire mid-air as the plane was approaching the airport. 33 passengers…
LAGOS JUNE 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-On Tuesday, the 14th of June, 2022, Mr. Peter Obi informed Nigerians via his twitter handle of his trip to Egypt, to understudy by what miracle the third biggest economy in Africa after South-Africa and Nigeria moved their power generation from 20,000 Megawatts to over 40,000 megawatts in four years. Ironically, Nigeria…
LAGOS JUNE 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerians have reacted to a claim that the presidential candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi travelled to Egypt to attend the Annual General Meeting of Afreximbank which holds from Wednesday to Saturday. Recall that Obi announced his departure to the North African country to understudy the education, power and finance sectors as…
LAGOS JUNE 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Update, 6/16/22: The Smithsonian Institution voted to repatriate 29 of its 39 Benin bronzes to Nigeria, and plans to return to Nigeria’s National Commission for Museums and Monuments “at a later date.” It’s as yet unclear what the institution plans to do with the remaining 10 bronzes. Original, 3/9/22: The Smithsonian Institution…
LAGOS JUNE 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Igbo leaders, on Wednesday, reiterated their aversion to the taking the position of the Vice President in any of the major political parties in Nigeria, a position they started drumming up early enough in the current political arrangement in the country. But it comes as they threw their weight firmly behind Peter…
