LAGOS JULY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former governor of Lagos, Akinwunmi Ambode has spoken on his rumoured planned defection from the All Progressive Congress, APC, to the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. There have been speculations in some quarters that Ambode was disappointed he did not make the ministerial list President Muhammadu Buhari submitted to the Nigerian Senate….
LAGOS JULY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-China has commenced the export of used cars popularly known as ‘tokunbo’ to Africa, Asia and Europe, with Nigeria one of the destinations for the first batch of 300 cars. The country’s Ministry of Commerce had, in a statement, announced that it had cleared 10 cities to begin the export of second-hand…
LAGOS JUY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Supreme Court on Tuesday adjourned hearing until August 20, in an application filed by the Peoples Democratic Party, and its candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, challenging the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal’s rejection of their request to access the Independent National Electoral Commission’s “central server”. NAN reports that the PDP and Abubakar alleged…
LAGOS JULY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Desire Oparanozie believes the Nigeria women’s team deserve to receive the same pay as the country’s male side. Oparanozie, who captained the Super Falcons to a Round of 16 finish at the 2019 Fifa Women’s World Cup, made the comment at the 2019 Ladies In Sports Conference in Lagos. In 2018, Thomas…
LAGOS JULY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS) — Nigeria’s 2019 general elections weren’t credible due to logistical failures by the electoral commission, interference by the military, widespread violence and voter suppression, the Nigerian Civil Society Situation Room, a coalition of 70 civic groups that monitored the vote, said. President Muhammadu Buhari won a second four-year term in office…
LAGOS JULY 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Ogun State Police Command said it had arrested 41 suspected kidnappers after it rescued seven victims, including three staff of Lafia Hospital Apata Ibadan on Saturday. The staff had been reportedly kidnapped on Tuesday at Ogunmakin along Lagos-Ibadan expressway in Ogun State while coming from Lagos. The Police Public Relations Officer…
LAGOS JULY 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A housewife, Mrs. Gbemisola Alabi, 35 was on Sunday morning kidnapped by some unknown persons, while jogging around Monastery road near Novare Mall – Shoprite, Shongotedo- Ajah, Lagos on Sunday (28th July 2012). As at 7pm on Monday, her family was yet to be contacted by her captors. According to her relatives,…
LAGOS JULY 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Telephone subscribers were left stranded, while telecommunication companies lost millions of Naira as protesting Ijaw youths shut down telecommunication masts in Bayelsa State. A Task Force of the Ijaw Youths Council (IYC), Central Zone, on Monday raided and shut down facilities belonging to telecommunication companies in Bayelsa State following unresolved disputes on…
