LAGOS APRIL 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Voters in Kabba/Bunu/Ijumu Federal Constituency in Kogi have shunned the ongoing verification exercise organised by INEC to authenticate the signatures of voters seeking to recall Sen. Dino Melaye (APC/Kogi West). Journalists monitoring the exercise in Mr Melaye’s Kogi West Senatorial District, observed that the polling units were empty, with many people claiming…
LAGOS APRIL 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Twelve persons were confirmed dead while five others sustained injuries in an accident involving a Volvo truck and a Ford bus at Foursquare area on Lagos /Ibadan Expressway on Saturday. Babatunde Akinbiyi, the Public Relations Officer, Ogun Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Agency (TRACE), confirmed the incident in Abeokuta. Mr Akinbiyi explained that…
LAGOS APRIL 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, on Saturday, called on members of the Coalition for Nigeria Movement (CNM) to be battle ready to take over power in 2019, stressing that they should propagate the need for all qualified electorates to obtain their Permanent Voters Card (PVC) ahead of the poll. Mr Obasanjo made this…
LAGOS APRIL 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than fourteen opposition parties in Lagos State have formed an alliance to challenge the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2019 elections. The Chairman of Alliance for Democracy (AD) in the state, Mr Kola Ajayi, made the disclosure on Saturday in an interview in Lagos. He said that the “Star…
LAGOS APRIL 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the South-west on Friday met with the party’s governorship aspirants in Ekiti State to assure them of their commitment and readiness to collaborate with the party’s National Working Committee in organising a free, fair and transparent governorship primary election in the state. To…
LAGOS APRIL 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Delta State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Chieftain and former Governorship aspirant, Chief Sunny Onuesoke has condemned in strong terms, the recurring invasion and killing of the people of Benue State by suspected herdsmen and the concomitant nonchalant cum indifferent posture of the Federal Government concerning the problem. Onuesoke who made the condemnation…
LAGOS APRIL 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The former Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi, has again added his voice to the call for the restructuring of Nigeria. Presenting the keynote address at the 2018 Annual Law Week of the Nigerian Bar Association, Owerri Branch, Obi said that since the present structure was not working, the need for…
LAGOS APRIL 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The ‘Church of Satan’ has said President Muhammadu Buhari is”ignorant” over the statement he made about the recent Benue church killings. In condemning the attack on St Ignatius Catholic church in Ayar-Mbalom village, Benue State by Fulani herdsmen, Buhari had described the act as ‘satanic.’ The herders murdered two Catholic priests and…