LAGOS APRIL 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A breakaway Boko Haram faction known as the Islamic State in West Africa has seized some towns in Borno and Yobe states, providing protection to Muslim residents and collecting taxes from them, Reuters reports. The Federal Government and the Defence Headquarters (DHQ) have, however, described the report as a tissue of lies….
Chief Sunny Onuesoke is a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Delta State, and former governorship aspirant. In this interview he bears his mind on some key issues in the country. Excerpts: The Senate and House of Representatives have summoned President Buhari to address a joint session of National Assembly on the raging…
LAGOS APRIL 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There was a heavy clash between supporters of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and those of the All Progressives Congress (APC) outside the VIP arrival hall of the Benin city airport Friday evening, over a senator’s anti Buhari comment at the Senate. Security operatives, led by the Edo State Police Commissioner, Mr….
LAGOS APRIL 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Senator representing Edo South in the National Assembly, Matthew Urhoghide, yesterday revealed what happened to him after he moved the motion for President Muhammadu Buhari’s impeachment. The Senator who said he has no regrets for moving the motion, alleged that the Chief of Staff to Governor Obaseki, Taiwo Akerele, mobilized thugs tojustassault…
LAGOS APRIL 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former military head of state, General Yakubu Gowon, has called on all leaders and elder statesmen in Nigeria to come together for an urgent meeting on ways to end the killings across the country, especially in Benue and Borno states. General Gowon who condemned the killings lamented that his heart bleeds…
LAGOS APRIL 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Senator Dino Melaye has reacted to the failed attempt to recall him from the Senate saying he will continue to stand by the truth. In a couple of tweet on Sunday, April 29, the embattled senator representing Kogi west appreciated the effort of his people to keep him in the senate. He…
LAGOS APRIL 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The recall election for Dino Melaye as the lawmaker for Kogi West Senatorial District has failed, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced. Only five per cent of the electorate turned out in an exercise that required 51 per cent majority to succeed. Of the 189,870 signatories, only 18,742 were verified…
LAGOS APRIL 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Voters in Kabba/Bunu/Ijumu Federal Constituency in Kogi have shunned the ongoing verification exercise organised by INEC to authenticate the signatures of voters seeking to recall Sen. Dino Melaye (APC/Kogi West). Journalists monitoring the exercise in Mr Melaye’s Kogi West Senatorial District, observed that the polling units were empty, with many people claiming…
