LAGOS OCTOBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Bayelsa state High Court 7 sitting in Yenagoa on Friday sentenced Cpl. Vincent Olama to death by hanging for extrajudicial killing. In his judgment, Justice E Eradiri, said Olama was found guilty of killing of a 17 -year-old, Innocent Kokorifa, in Okaka, Yenagoa, on Aug. 18, 2016. The Judge said the…
LAGOS OCTOBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, Senator Magnus Ngei Abe, has rejected the endorsement of Dele Cole as the Rivers State governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC). This is as he vowed to appeal the NWC’s decision of the party to accept an individual who…
LAGOS OCTOBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Presidential aspirants on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party were on Friday night handed over the list of delegates that would take part in the presidential primary scheduled for Port Harcourt, Rivers State on Saturday (today). However, one of our correspondents gathered that some of the aspirants were apprehensive that the…
LAGOS OCTOBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Due to the delay by states’ governments in providing land for ranches the Federal Government has decided to use some of its own land in various parts of the country for the establishment of ranches in order to put an end to clashes between herders and farmers across the nation. It was…
LAGOS OCTOBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi, has lauded the great contributions of Nigerian teachers towards the country’s development and charged governments at all levels to take them serious by doing more to appreciate them. “I wish to use the opportunity offered by this year’s World Teachers Day to express my…
By Amos Odeh LAGOS OCTOBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and former Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, (NDDC), Chief Timi Alaibe on Friday defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), with over 6,200 supporters. Other APC chieftains who decamped alongside the former NDDC boss are former Secretary to…
LAGOS OCTOBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Election Petition Tribunal constituted to hear the petitions arising from the Osun State governorship election has granted an ex parte order to Senator Ademola Adeleke, restraining the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from altering election results as well as information contained in the card reader machines and other documents used for…
LAGOS OCTOBER 5TH (NEWRANGERS)-The Bus conductors Association of Nigeria, BCAN, have declared their support for the second term bid of President Buhari. The group in statement released by its National Liason officer, Israel Adeshola, said they are in a hurry to see President Buhari return to Aso Rock in 2019. The statement in part reads…