LAGOS JUNE 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Several officials who said they were deployed as electoral officers by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the 2019 presidential election said they transmitted results electronically to a ‘central server’ through smart card readers. This they said was done in compliance with the directive given by the commission during a three-day…
LAGOS JUNE 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Mr Olu Onemola, the Special Assistant on New Media to the President of the Senate, Sen. Ahmed Lawan, has resigned his appointment. A statement by the Special Assistant to Lawan on Media and Publicity, Mr Mohammed Isa, on Sunday in Abuja, said the resignation of Onemola was announced in a letter addressed…
LAGOS JUNE 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has explained why it terminated the services of Intels Nigeria Limited from the eastern ports of Calabar, Delta and Port Harcourt. The company, co-owned by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, provides comprehensive integrated logistics services for the Nigerian oil and gas industry and has 30 years of experience…
LAGOS JUNE 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former National President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and erstwhile Vice-Chancellor of the Imo State University (IMSU), Prof Ukachukwu Awuzie, has said that it would be difficult for power to return to the Southwest in 2023 going by power equation in the country. According to him, even if the…
LAGOS JUNE 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Magistrate’s court in Kano has sentenced an artiste, Mohammed Yusuf, to two years imprisonment for defaming the character of Governor Abdullahi Ganduje in a viral song. Popularly known as AGY, Yusuf recorded the hit song which mocked the governor’s alleged dollar bribe, creation of new Kano emirates and election rigging. Daily…
LAGOS JUNE 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, is far from surviving the plot to ease him out of office, Sunday Tribune can authoritatively reveal. There is a fresh move to kick him out of the party’s national secretariat coming on the eve of his one year in office…
LAGOS JUNE 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s Super Falcons players have refused to leave the team hotel after their exit from the women’s World Cup on Saturday, demanding that the country’s soccer federation clears all of their outstanding bonus payments, ESPN reported. The players staged a sit-in protest shortly after Nigeria were beaten 3-0 by double champions Germany…
State LAGOS JUNE 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Edo State Governor, Mr Godwin Obaseki, may have a very rough road to seeking another term of office next year, as his antagonists are planning to deny him the ticket of his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), investigation by our correspondent has revealed. The current impasse in the State House…
