LAGOS MARCH 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Governor of Bayelsa State, Henry Seriake Dickson, has called on members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to woo back its former leaders, Prof Jerry Gana and Tunde Adeniran who just decamped to another party, the SDP. Dickson described both Gana, a founding father and Adeniran as “icons of democracy and…
LAGOS MARCH 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The former Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi, has called on Nigerians to eschew nepotism and encourage the culture of merit. Obi was speaking at the weekend during the public presentation of “One Faith, Many Tongues: Managing Diversity in the Church in Nigeria”, written by Archbishop Fortunatus Nwachukwu, the Papal Nuncio…
LAGOS MARCH 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The All Progressive Congress (APC) has won all the 18 chairmanship seats in the March 3 local government election in Edo. The Chairman of the Edo State Independent Electoral Commission (EDSIEC), Prof. Stanley Orobator, announced the results of the council polls in Benin on Sunday. Orobator said the exercise was rancor-free and…
LAGOS MARCH 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The All Progressives Congress has taken its campaign for the restructuring of the country to the Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland, Dr. Gani Adams. A team sent by the Deputy National Chairman (South) of the party, Engineer Segun Oni, was at the Lagos home of Adams to dialogue with him on the…
LAGOS MARCH 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari will Monday depart for Accra, Ghana to attend the country’s 61st Independence Anniversary celebrations holding at the Independence Square on Tuesday, March 6, 2018. A statement issued by Femi Adesina, Special Adviser (Media) to the President stated that the president will use the opportunity to reaffirm the long-standing warm…
LAGOS MARCH 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There was tension in Ezimuko Nsukwu village, Abatete, in Idemili North Council Area, of Anambra state, South-East, Nigeria, as a 27 year old man, identified as Ifeanyi Oguejiofor, on Saturday reportedly stabbed his father, Osita Oguejiofor to death , with a kitchen knife. He equally stabbed his mother who survived the attack,…
By Amos Okioma,Yenagoa. LAGOS MARCH 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Governor of Anambra State Mr Peter Obi, penultimate Weekend in Yenagoa proffered panacea for Nigeria and Africa to overcome its economic challenges. Obi made the recommendations while speaking at the ongoing 2018 African SME Round Table Forum holding at the Azaiki Library in Yenagoa.. According to Obi, Nigeria…
LAGOS MARCH 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The wife and child of a reporter with the Voice of America, VOA, Malam Nasir Birnin-Yero,who were kidnapped, have regained freedom. A member of staff of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), was killed in the process of the kidnap. Their release was confirmed by the VOA’s reporter, Malam Nasir Birnin-Yero, on…