LAGOS JULY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, has said he remains a member of the All Progressives Congress. Saraki said this in reaction to the formation of a new party, Reformed APC, by some aggrieved members on Wednesday, a development to which his name had been linked. But he said…
LAGOSJULY 5TH(NEWSRANGERS)-A faction named Reformed APC (R-APC) has emerged from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). This was contained in a Press Conference held by the new faction, R-APC in Abuja on Wednesday where it named former Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) Secretary, Buba Galadima as its National Chairman. At the Press Conference held at…
LAGOSJULY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Federal High Court sitting in Osogbo has granted an order of mandamus to compel the National Assembly to begin impeachment process against President Muhammadu Buhari, based on some alleged constitutional breaches. Justice Maureen Onyetenu gave the ex parte order on Wednesday, following a motion filed before her by the Chairman, Nigeria Bar…
LAGOSJULY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The former Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi, has commended the visit of the French President Emmanuel Macron to Nigeria, describing it as “a positive development”. Obi spoke as part of the dignitaries that received the French President at Fela’s Afrika Shrine in Ikeja on Tuesday. While answering questions from newsmen, Obi…
By Samuel Akpobome Orovwuje LAGOS JULY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The regretful narrative of episodic elections and political leadership deficit reminds me of Robert Kaplan classic entitled: The coming of Anarchy. In the book, he painted a gloomy picture of how episodic experiment in democracy, scarcity, crime, over population, ethnicity, and weak leadership are rapidly destroying the social…
LAGOS JULY 5TH(NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Customs Service, Zone “B” Federal Operations Unit, has impounded an empty petrol tanker, a J5 bus and a truck conveying smuggled rice on the Kaduna-Zaria axis. Usman Dakingari, the Controller, FOU Zone B, dropped the hint while addressing journalists on the seizures in Kaduna on Wednesday. He said that the customs…
LAGOS JULY 5TH (NEWRANGERS)- French President Emmanuel Macron shook up his two-day visit to Nigeria with a stop at the New Afrika Shrine, a concert hall founded by the late music legend Fela Kuti where partying Nigerians gather, though the usual gyrating dancers and marijuana were absent. Macron, who was an intern in Nigeria at…
LAGOS JULY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Chief Femi Adesina charged those against the administration’s ranching and colony programmes for herdsmen to rethink, noting that they are better off living with the ranches and colonies than dying through the persisting conflicts. Femi Adesina, speaking on an AIT morning programme in…
