LAGOS SEPTEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-APC Presidential aspirant Mr. Christmas Akpodiete will appear in court with forty two human right Lawyers as the case awaits hearing at the Federal High court holden at Abuja. Among the lawyers are five Senior Advocates Of Nigeria (SAN), eighteen of his legal classmates and nineteen probono Lawyers. Two week ago, the…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said it was not banning the use of Smartphone around the polling unit areas, but the moment a prospective voter entered voting cubicle to cast his or her vote. The Chief Press Secretary to INEC Chairman, Rotimi Oyekanmi, made the declaration in an interview with the…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Plateau State All Progress Congress Party has Senator Joshua Dariye, who is currently serving a 14-year jail term for fraud for obtaining the party nomination form to contest in the 2019 election. Chindo Dafat, APC Publicity Secretary in Plateau who spoke to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Tuesday in Jos affirmed…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Nigerian Ambassador to Switzerland and one of the founding members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Plateau State, Ambassador Yahaya Kwande , has declared his support for former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. He made the declaration when Atiku, who is one of the 13 presidential aspirants of the Peoples…
By Amos Odeh LAGOS SEPTEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Chairman òf Peoples DemocraticPary (PDP) Prince Uche Secondus has reiterated that the decision of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to ban the use of smart phones in polling units was the strategy of the electoral body and APC to rig the 2019 elections. Secondus who argued that…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Presidential aspirant, Dr Bukola Saraki, yesterday, warned Nigerians to be mindful of presidential aspirants promising to restructure Nigeria, if elected president. Saraki, who spoke at the PDP secretariat in Lagos State, where he was endorsed as favourite candidate, said restructuring agenda was not something a president could single-handedly…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Oyo State Government is not leaving any stone unturned in its aggressive tax drive as it has continued to shut down major business outfits that are defaulting in the payment of taxes. Among the companies shut down today is Obasanjo Farms located at Oluyole Industrial Estate, Ibadan, which is owned by former…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Floods in much of central and southern Nigeria have killed 100 people across 10 states, the country’s emergency and disasters agency said on Monday. Such flooding tends to occur every year in the rainy season, exacerbated by poor infrastructure and lack of planning to protect against inundation, but this year the destruction…