LAGOS FEBRUARY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Following the postponement of the general elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has scheduled an emergency caucus meeting for Monday, Vanguard can authoritatively report. Among those expected at the meeting are President Muhammadu Buhari, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, serving and former state governors, among…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Mr Osaretin Igbinedion, second son of the ex-Edo governor, Lucky Igbinedion, and a nephew have been reported dead in a ghastly auto accident in America. Osaretin, according to a family source, was said to have died in the early hours of yesterday in the accident. The source also urged Nigerians to pray…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Mr Ken Ukaoha, President, National Association of Nigerian Traders (NANTs) says the country will lose more than N140 billion due to the postponement of the general elections. Ukaoha told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Saturday that the postponement would affect the trading sector adversely. He noted that many…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The dreaded terrorist group, Boko Haram, has bombed a Mosque in Maiduguri, killing eleven persons. The commissioner of police in the state, Damian Chukwu, who confirmed the incident, said it happened around 5:40am. He said two suicide bombers, accompanied by a gunman, infiltrated the mosque located at Kushari village behind old CBN…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, has ruled out political influence in the postponement of the Presidential and National Assembly elections earlier scheduled to hold on February 16 and March 2, 2019. Prof. Yakubu said this while addressing stakeholders at the National Election Collation Centre located…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 16TH (NWSRANGERS)-The Peoples Democratic Party has rejected the new dates announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission for the conduct of the general elections. It alleged that shoddy arrangements for the elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission was a deliberate agenda of President Muhammadu Buhari to cling on to power even when…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent National Electoral Commission has decided to shift Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly elections till next week 23 February. It was one of the decisions reached early today in a crunch talk between INEC chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu and 12 national commissioners in Abuja, according to sources close to the meeting….
LAGOS FEBRUARY 15TH (NEWRANGERS)-More than 300 members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) protested in Maiduguri on Friday over the replacement of their names as ad hoc staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the presidential and National Assembly elections scheduled for Saturday. They protested in front of the Old Maiduguri Police…
