LAGOS SEPTEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Presidential aspirants of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have rejected the Port Harcourt venue of the party’s national convention slated for October 6. The presidential candidate of the party is expected to emerge at the convention. The aspirants have suggested alternative venues for the all-important exercise. The aspirants are reportedly uncomfortable with…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The US Government says it anticipates processing up to 310,000 refugees and asylum seekers in 2019. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the country proposed resettling up to 30,000 refugees under the new refugee ceiling as well as processing more than 280,000 asylum seekers. Pompeo said they would join the over…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As it becomes more obvious that the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Bola Tinubu, will not change his mind on his decision not to support Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode’s second term of office ambition, the embattled governor is weighing his options and will soon make his next…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA has destroyed drugs weighing 110.542 tons in Akure, Ondo State. This is the single largest public destruction of exhibits by burning, coming after the one by Edo State which gross weight was 136 tons. The drugs, mainly Cannabis sativa, were some of the seizures made by…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-About five days to the Osun State governorship election, the National Rescue Movement (NRM) on Monday gave the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), 24 hours within which it should include the name of its candidate, Jumoke Lawoyin, whose name has been omitted from the list approved by the commission. Should INEC fail…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Key stakeholders of the governing APC in Lagos are mounting enormous pressure on Lagos Governor Akinwunmi Ambode to drop out of the governorship race, endorse Mr. Babajide Sanwoolu as the party’s flagbearer ahead of the 2019 general poll, or risk disgrace at the primary election. Ambode has fallen out of favour with…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Governorship candidates contesting in September 22 election in Osun State have intensified their campaigns as some of them stormed some churches with large congregations in a subtle move to solicit votes ahead of the poll. On Sunday morning, a former governor of Osun State, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, who is one of the…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Chairman of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Chief Ralph Nwosu, has said that former President, Olusegun Obasanjo is not a member of the party. He made this known in Osogbo on Saturday when he spoke with members of the party at the national convention of the party holding in the…