LAGOS APRIL 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)- Brig-Gen Paul Boroh (rtd), former Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta and Coordinator, Presidential Amnesty Programme, has alleged that his sack was influenced by corrupt APC elements in the government of President Muhammadu Buhari. According to Boroh, notable officials in the government wanted him to share “the spoils of…
LAGOS APRIL 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The All Progressives Congress on Sunday announced the constitution of its National Convention Committee with Jigawa Governor, Alhaji Abubakar Badaru, as Chairman. According to APC’s Organising Secretary, Senator Osita Izunaso, in the party’s news social media handle, the 68-member committee has Governors of Imo, Borno, Katsina, Oyo, Yobe, Kaduna, Plateau, Adamawa, Kogi…
LAGOS APRIL 16TH (NEWRANGERS)-The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has distanced itself from a purported cut-off mark being circulated in some sections of the media, saying it did not emanate from the board. The board’s Head of Media and Information Department, Dr Fabian Benjamin said no such cut-off mark, whether for programmes or institutions…
LAGOS APRL 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Donald Trump will welcome the leader of Nigeria to the White House later this month. Press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders says in a statement that Trump will welcome President Muhammadu Buhari on April 30. Sanders says the two will discuss economic reforms, fighting terrorism and ways to grow Nigeria’s “role as…
LAGOS APRIL 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) Chieftain and former governorship aspirant, Chief Sunny Onuesoke has revealed that scores of members of All Progressive Congress (APC) Senators, House of Representative and top chieftains in the party will be defecting to PDP soonest. Onuesoke who made the disclosure while addressing the gathering of Northern PDP youths in…
LAGOS APRIL 15TH (NEWRANGERS)-)-A social media handler of the Peoples Democratic Party, Mansur Ahmed, has been arrested. The media handler, according to available information, was arrested by operatives of the Jigawa State Police Command. Reasons for Ahmed’s arrest was not stated as at press time. However, it is believed that his critical comments on the…
LAGOS APRIL 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Office of Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), have received petitions on monumental corrupt practices against the current Director General of National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Engr. Mustapha Maihaja. The new revelation is coming after a public hearing of House of Representatives…
LAGOS APRIL 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Archbishop Emeritus of Lagos, Anthony Cardinal Olubunmi Okogie, has warned politicians allegedly manipulating President Muhammadu Buhari to seek re-election next year. He said those pushing the president should take time to gauge the mood of the nation or risk plunging Nigeria into an “unnecessary revolution”. Okogie told Vanguard “Every citizen of Nigeria…