LAGOS MARCH 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent National Electoral Commission has officially postponed the March 11, 2023 Governorship and States Houses of Assemblies elections. National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, confirmed this. In a statement late on Wednesday, Okoye said: “Following today’s ruling by the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (EPT) on the…
LAGOS MARCH 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Presidential Election Petition Court sitting at the Court of Appeal in Abuja, on Wednesday, granted the request of the Independent National Electoral Commission to reconfigure the Bimodal Voter Accreditation System it used for the presidential election. The court, in a unanimous decision by a three-member panel of justices, held that preventing…
LAGOS MARCH 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Appeal Court in Abuja has granted the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, access to inspect electoral materials used by the Independent National Electoral Commission during February 25, 2022, general elections. The PUNCH reports that Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, on Tuesday, urged the Court of Appeal in Abuja to order INEC…
LAGOS MARCH 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The governorship candidate of the Labour Party, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour (GRV) on Wednesday visited shop owners whose properties were burnt during a fire mishap at Akere Spare Parts Market, in the Ajegunle area of Lagos. GRV who commiserated with the victims of the fire incident also donated the sum of fifteen million Naira…
LAGOS MARCH 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Heartbroken first-time voters in Nigeria are being urged not to give up after the candidate that many of them backed came third in the presidential race two weeks ago. This is because crucial state elections are being held soon – where governors and local assemblies will be chosen. It is the state…
LAGOS MARCH 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian woman who has been wanted in Italy since 2010 has been flown from Abuja back to Rome where she has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for crimes including running a prostitution ring, Italian police said on Wednesday. Joy Jeff, who is 48, was one of the few women…
LAGOS MARCH 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr Peter Obi, has restated his commitment to a broad inclusion of women in governance, saying that women play very critical roles in nation building and must be given a fair chance to participate at high levels of administration, governance and leadership. Obi made…
LAGOS MARCH 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Seun Kuti, the Afrobeat singer, is of the opinion that Lagos is a “European satellite slave port” owned by the Portuguese. In a series of Instagram posts on Tuesday, Seun argued that people who think Lagos is a “no man’s land or a Yoruba land are wrong”. According to the singer, Lagos…
