LAGOS JULY 9TH (NEWSRANGRS)-Senate President Bukola Saraki is warming up to join the race for the Presidential ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in August, according to sources in his camp. Hints about his presidential ambition emerged yesterday; just 24 hours after the Supreme Court cleared him of allegations of impropriety in his declaration…
LAGOS JULY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Kassim Afegbua, the spokesman of the Reformed All Progressive Congress, R-APC, has said that the focus of the splinter group is to remain within the APC and rescue it from predators. Afegbua told Vanguard that the R-APC was for now not concerned about joining any political party as that isn’t the splinter…
By Onesirosan Agbajoh LAGOS JULY8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Presidential Amnesty programme for the people of Niger Delta today, has become a Success Story and a pointer to the fact that Nigerian Government indeed is committed to addressing the aged long neglect and marginalization of the Region which has remain the economic nerve-center of the country. The Programme…
LAGOS JULY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The security crisis ravaging English-speaking regions of Cameroon is driving away many of the biggest traders originally from neighbouring Nigeria who have traditionally run key markets in towns around the regions, a report by Quartz Africa said. The crisis, which started as a modest industrial strike action by English-speaking lawyers and teachers…
LAGOS JULY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Police Command in the FCT has arrested and dismissed a policeman who allegedly killed an NYSC member, Angela Igwetu, in Abuja. NAN reports that Igwetu, who was allegedly shot in the early hours of Wednesday around Ceddi Plaza by a police officer, was rushed to the Garki Hospital where she died….
LAGOS JULY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)- A total of 13,203 mobile telecommunications subscribers in Nigeria changed their network providers for others in May, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has said. The subscribers changed their service providers under the Mobile Number Portability (MNP). The commission made this known in its Incoming and Outgoing Porting Activities of Mobile Network…
LAGOS JULY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The pupils of Westminster Primary School on Thursday exhibited the stuff they are made off when the school celebrated One Year Graduation and price giving ceremony. Although the school located at Ikotun in Alimosho local government area of Lagos state is a year old, the performance and maturity exhibited by the pupils…
LAGOS JULY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has postponed until further notice its planned peaceful protest march earlier slated for 11 July, 2018 ‘due to some circumstances beyond its control.’ The association, however, said its 3-day prayer and fasting will still hold from July 9 to 11, in all churches and state chapters…