LAGOS NOVEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s opposition leader Atiku Abubakar launched his presidential campaign on Monday vowing to create millions of jobs to tackle rising inequality and insecurity in Africa’s top oil producer. Seated for a nine-minute address streamed live on Facebook and Twitter, Abubakar laid out his plan to “get Nigeria working again”. “The sad fact…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former Federal Commissioner for Information and South-South Leader, Chief Edwin Clark, yesterday, gave an insight into why leaders of the South-South and Middle Belt Leaders Forum are backing former Vice President and presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar as the country’s next President. According to him, it became…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has sued an online journalist and radio presenter, Mr Akanda Oro, popularly known as Awikonko, for N1bn. Obasanjo described as untrue claims by the reporter that he had a hand in the assassination of the late Attorney General of the Federation, Chief Bola Ige (SAN), and the slain…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Four staff members of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), a member of the NYSC and a three-year-old girl on Saturday died in an accident along Ajaokuta–Lokoja Road. According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the victims were returning in the evening from Ayingba, Kogi, where they attended the wedding ceremony…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As campaigns for the Presidential and National Assembly elections, President Muhammadu Buhari has decided to first showcase his achievements and projections for the next four years to Nigerians before the official flag-off of the campaigns. According to a statement by Festus Keyamo, SAN, Director, Strategic Communications, President Muhammadu Buhari Campaign Organisation, the…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 19TH (NEWRANGERS)-Babatunde Ogala, the National Legal Adviser of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has accused Adams Oshiomhole, the National Chairman, of hijacking his office. This was revealed in an internal memo from Ogala addressed to Oshiomhole, where he accused the former Edo Governor of denigrating the party’s legal department. In the memo, Ogala…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC) says out of the over N41billion disbursed for community projects in Niger Delta, about N15billion went to Rivers State under the Global Memorandum of Understanding. “Between 2006 and end of 2017, a total of N14.86 billion has been invested by the SPDC Joint…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Except stringent measures are put in place, the the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), may go up in flames on Monday following allegations that its President, Samson Ayokunle, has perfected plans to impeach his Vice and renowned Professor of Virology, Prof. Joseph Otubu. Although the plot has created serious tension in CAN,…