LAGOSJULY 5TH(NEWSRANGERS)-A faction named Reformed APC (R-APC) has emerged from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). This was contained in a Press Conference held by the new faction, R-APC in Abuja on Wednesday where it named former Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) Secretary, Buba Galadima as its National Chairman. At the Press Conference held at…
LAGOSJULY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Federal High Court sitting in Osogbo has granted an order of mandamus to compel the National Assembly to begin impeachment process against President Muhammadu Buhari, based on some alleged constitutional breaches. Justice Maureen Onyetenu gave the ex parte order on Wednesday, following a motion filed before her by the Chairman, Nigeria Bar…
LAGOSJULY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The former Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi, has commended the visit of the French President Emmanuel Macron to Nigeria, describing it as “a positive development”. Obi spoke as part of the dignitaries that received the French President at Fela’s Afrika Shrine in Ikeja on Tuesday. While answering questions from newsmen, Obi…
LAGOS JULY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Chief Femi Adesina charged those against the administration’s ranching and colony programmes for herdsmen to rethink, noting that they are better off living with the ranches and colonies than dying through the persisting conflicts. Femi Adesina, speaking on an AIT morning programme in…
LAGOS JULY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Following recent killings in the country, the Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland, Iba Gani Adams, yesterday, declared his readiness to lead fight against killer herdsmen. Calling for a South-West Security Summit to discuss herdsmen killings in the zone, Adams noted that events of the last few months have shown that Nigeria is…
LAGOS JULY4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A gang of robbers have met their Waterloo at Morogbo, in the Badagry area of Lagos State after they were caught for robbing a bank customer of N250,000. PUNCH Metro learnt that the suspects were beaten to a pulp by a mob on Friday before they were handed over to policemen from the…
LAGOS JULY 4H (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Police Force says investigation is ongoing to arrest the suspected killers of seven policemen in Galadimawa area of Abuja. Suspected gunmen on Monday night at a roundabout in Galadimawa area of Abuja killed the policemen who were on stop-and-search duty. The force spokesman and Acting Deputy Commissioner of Police, Jimoh…
LAGOS JULY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Senate plans to amend the Constitution to allow for the creation of state and community police. Senate President Bukola Saraki disclosed the plan on Tuesday, three days after he faulted the country’s security infrastructure and called for the removal of incapable security chiefs. “Today, my colleagues and I in the eighth…