LAGOS JANUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent National Electoral Commission on Tuesday received the last batch of the Bimodal Voter Accreditation machines. This was contained in a statement signed by INEC National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, on Wednesday. According to the statement, the commission created four airport hubs in Abuja, Kano,…
LAGOS JANUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Peter Obi Support Network (POSN) has welcomed the endorsement of Labour Party (LP) candidate for next month’s Presidential election, Mr. Peter Obi, by respected former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, describing it as a patriotic move to rescue the country from collapse. POSN in a statement issued on Wednesday and signed by…
LAGOS JANUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Wife of presidential frontrunner and candidate of Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 general elections, Margaret Peter Obi, has said that Nigerian women must reject past governments which refused to give the women opportunity in their administration. Mrs Obi also assured Nigerians of holistic health insurance cover for the poorest in the…
LAGOS JANUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Military coups were a regular occurrence in Africa in the decades after independence and there is concern they are starting to become more frequent. There were two takeovers in Burkina Faso in 2022 as well as failed coup attempts in Guinea Bissau, The Gambia and the island nation of Sao Tome and…
LAGOS JANUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The 1980s Brazil international Walter Casagrande, a fearsome striker of the era and now a columnist with views just as robust, was unequivocal about the way in which Pele had been treated in death by his successors in the famous yellow shirt. “The vast majority resent the King,” Casagrande wrote in his…
LAGOS JANUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Some of Brazil’s best-known footballers have faced a furious backlash as fans and pundits questioned why they had failed to attend ceremonies bidding farewell to Pelé. Hundreds of thousands of people waited for hours under a burning sun on Monday to file past the recently deceased soccer legend’s coffin at Santos’ Vila…
LAGOS JANUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The bodies of four people killed in a late December helicopter crash in the Gulf of Mexico have been recovered, company officials confirmed Tuesday. The helicopter crashed at around 8:40 a.m. Dec. 29 while carrying a pilot and three oil platform workers, according to the U.S. Coast Guard’s 8th District. The aircraft…
LAGOS JANUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The lifeless body of the abducted son of the slain staff of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr Kehinde Fatinoye, has been found in Ogun river. DAILY POST reported on Sunday that Fatinoye and his wife were murdered by yet-to-be-identified persons in their Ibara GRA residence in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital….
