LAGOS JULY 35TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man, has put a 2020 timeline on his goal of buying Arsenal, following a report that Alisher Usmanov is exploring a sale of his 30 percent stake. The Financial Times reported on Tuesday, citing sources close to the Russian billionaire, that Usmanov has grown frustrated that the club’s…
LAGOS JULY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Attempt by a suspected kidnapper, who disguised as a mad man to abduct a four-year-old girl from Christ Anointed Church, in Ayobo area of Lagos, during church service, has been foiled leading to his arrest. The suspect, identified simply Jacob Dare (28), according to the father of the girl, Mr Ebhoboghe Rufus,…
LAGOS JULY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The factional group of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, the R- APC, Tuesday hailed the Senators and members of the House of Representatives who dumped the party for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP and other political parties. In a statement yesterday by the National Publicity Secretary of the R- APC, Prince…
LAGOS JULY 25TH (NESRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed his total commitment to the values of democracy, freedom of choice as well as total willingness to work with all members of the National Assembly, irrespective of their political party, for the benefit of the nation. In his reaction to the developments Tuesday morning at the National…
LAGOS JULY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiohmole has reiterated that he would not miss sleep for minute over Tuesday’s defection of some members of the National Assembly from the party. It would be recalled that 15 Senators and 37 House of Representatives members, on July 25 announced…
LAGOS JULY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The House of Representatives has been thrown into a rowdy session following the defection of 37 lawmakers from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). 33 lawmakers defected to the opposition, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) while four joined the African Democratic Congress (ADC). The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, announced…
LAGOS JULY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Members of the House of Representatives from the Peoples Democratic Party are right now in jubilation over the defection of some All Progressives Congress senators this morning. The members, led by the Deputy Minority Leader, Mr Chukwuka Onyema, are singing anti-APC songs in the lobby of the National Assembly building. The House…
LAGOS JULY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, has read a letter from 13 members of the All Progressives’ senators declaring their defection from the ruling All Progressives Congress to the opposition Peoples Democratic Party. The lawmakers include Rabi’u Kwankwaso (Kano-Central), Dino Melaye (Kogi-West), Adesoji Akanbi (Oyo-South), Monsurat Sunmonu (Oyo-Central), Rafiu Ibrahim (Kwara-South), Suleiman…