LAGOS JUNE 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Several people were allegedly killed in Gashish and Ropp Districts of Plateau State on Sunday, during attacks that were carried out on about 11 communities by suspected Fulani herdsmen. Subsequently, the Plateau State Government has imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew on Riyom, Barkin Ladi and Jos South Local Government Areas. Although there were…
LAGOS JUNE 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Senate President Bukola Saraki was humiliated on Saturday at the national convention of the All Progressives Congress, APC.[contact-form][contact-field label=”Name” type=”name” required=”true” /][contact-field label=”Email” type=”email” required=”true” /][contact-field label=”Website” type=”url” /][contact-field label=”Message” type=”textarea” /][/contact-form] He was booed as he arrived the Eagle Square, venue of the convention, in Abuja. The noise against him was,…
LAGOS JUNE 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Governor of Kano State, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, on Sunday explained why he was absent at the National Convention of All Progressive Congress. Kwankwaso said he stayed away to avert friction at the event. He congratulated Comrade Adams Oshiomhole for his emergence as the National Chairman of the party. Kwankwaso had while…
LAGOS JUNE 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)- At least five people were killed and six others injured in a night-time Boko Haram raid and suicide attack on a village in northeastern Nigeria, residents told AFP on Saturday. A male suicide bomber detonated his explosives among a group of residents sleeping in the open in Tungushe village in Borno…
LAGOS JUNE 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former Governor of Kano State, Sen. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, on Saturday night paid a courtesy visit to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar at his residence in Asokoro, Abuja. Kwankwaso arrived at Atiku’s residence at 8.30pm and went into a closed-door meeting with the former Vice President. The details of their meeting…
LAGOS JUNE 24H (NEWRANGERS)-Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, has said that there will be no use of the electronic voting system in the 2019 general elections. Professor Yakubu said this on Friday while addressing participants at the International Press Institute world conference which took place in Abuja. “There is…
LAGOS JUNE 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, a former governor of Edo State has been elected as National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, at the party’s national convention holding at the Eagle Square in Abuja. The former labour union leader, the sole candidate for the position following the withdrawal of two other prominent…
LAGOS JUNE 24TH (NEWSRANGRS)-The ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has adopted “Progress” as its new slogan and dumped “Change”, which it used to assume power in 2015. Though the party is yet to formally amend its constitution to this effect, one of the announcers at Saturday’s ongoing convention of the party announced the change. “I…