LAGOS FEBRUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba has replaced the Commissioners of Police in five States. Their redeployment is contained in a statement on Tuesday by Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Muyiwa Adejobi. The major highlight of the shakeup, announced in less than three weeks to the general elections, is the removal of…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A middle-aged man, Aso Orji, of Amosu Eddah, Afikpo South Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, slumped and died on Sunday during church service. He was confirmed dead at the Alex Ekwueme Federal University Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki. Orji, who is the choir director of Presbyterian Church, Kpirikpiri, Abakaliki, was said to have…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The ruling All Progressives (APC) is pushing for the postponement of the 2023 general elections by a minimum of four weeks. Credible sources in the party informed DAILY INDEPENDENT that the move is being spearheaded by Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State. However, the Atiku Abubakar Presidential Campaign Council has rejected the…
By Anthony Echi LAGOS FEBRUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)- They say the apple does not fall too far from the tree. While that aphorism may be as trite as they come it contains a large and discomfiting grain of truth. When the APC presidential flag-bearer Bola Ahmed Tinubu announced that he was throwing his hat into the…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former President of South Africa, H.E. Thabo Mbeki, will lead a team of Commonwealth election observers to Nigeria, which will be holding Africa’s largest democratic exercise later this month when it holds general elections on 25 February 2023. Commonwealth Secretary-General, the Rt Hon Patricia Scotland KC, constituted the Commonwealth Observer Group following…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has accused his All Progressives Congress (APC) counterpart, Bola Tinubu of sponsoring a multi-million naira fake documentary against him. Obi, in a statement by the Head of Media of the Obi-Datti Presidential Campaign Council, Diran Onifade, said the documentary is an attempt…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A loud whir fills the back of a print shop in Nigeria’s capital Abuja as machines churn out grinning faces of presidential election frontrunners. The country’s election advertizing campaign season is in full throttle. The run-up to a vote is usually a chance for small businesses like Shimatex Prints to cash in…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 15 Nigerian Muslim pilgrims on their way to Senegal were killed when gunmen in Burkina Faso attacked the buses transporting them, Nigeria’s presidency said on Monday. “President Muhammadu Buhari has received the tragic news of the murder,” the State House said in a statement without providing a number of…
