LAGOS OCTOBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the 2019 elections, Mr. Peter Obi, has dismissed the allegation of ethnic bias in the Onitsha Bridge Head clean-up currently trending in internet chat rooms of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). The clean-up exercise, which hitherto received much commendation, was undertaken…
LAGOS OCTOBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Bayelsa State Government has congratulated a senior lecturer in Niger Delta University (NDU), Wilberforce Island, Dr. Kaywood Leizou, for winning the 2018 World Chemical Sciences (Metal Speciation in Sediment) Championship. He emerged winner of the championship after defeating 5,845 other nominations from 89 other countries screened for the 2018 world championship….
LAGOS OCTOBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Pandemonium broke loose in Obadore community of Alimosho local government council area, forcing traders, commuters, students and other members of the public to run for their lives as operatives of the state Environmental Taskforce curbed the area for miscreants and other society misfits who allegedly attacked the operatives. Trouble started when a…
LAGOS OCTOBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 180-member caucus of former National Assembly lawmakers from the South East region has insisted that the former governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi, was the best choice as the running mate to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. A former member of the House of Representatives and…
LAGOS OCTOBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Non Governmental Organization, NGO, Network of Police Reform in Nigeria, NOPRIN, has faulted the budget process of the Nigeria Police, noting that it was one of the lapses that have resulted in the poor funding of the force over the years. IGP Ibrahim Idris in a bid to find a solution…
LAGOS OCTOBER 19TH (NEWRANGERS)-The Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has ordered the immediate arrest and prosecution of a member of the federal house of representatives in Abuja (names withheld) representing Ajaokuta constituency in Kogi state, for alleged certificate forgery, conspiracy, obtaining of false/forged documents and presentation of the documents to INEC knowing same to…
LAGOS OCTOBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Vice-Chairman, Dry Cargo Unit of Nigeria Association Of Road Transport Owner (NARTO) Lagos State branch, Alhaji A. Abdullahi Mohammed Inuwa has accused both the Nigeria Ports Authority ( NPA) and Nigeria Shippers Council (NSC) for contributing their own quota to the current failure in ports. Inuwa who revealed that the shipping…
LAGOS OCTOBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)_ Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria (CSN), described as mischievous demands by the Buhari Media Organisation that the Catholic Archbishop of Sokoto Diocese, Rev. Fr. Mathew Hassan Kukah, should be withdrawn as convener of the National Peace Committee (NPC). The organisation said Kukah was needed to bridge the animosity between ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo…