LAGOS NOVEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Attempts by some persons suspected to be armed robbers to attack some commercial banks in Lagere Area of Ile-Ife, Osun State, was, on Monday, foiled by some eagle-eyed residents of the area. Seven commercial banks have branches in Lagere area and the suspected robbers arrived the area about 10am. According to eye…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Army has raised alarm over the emergence of a new terrorist group, identified as Jama’Atu Nus’Ratul-Islami Wal-Muslimina, in the northeast region. This was disclosed in an official statement released by the Army on Saturday, November 17, 2018. The Army said the group’s leader has already been identified as a certain…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As the campaign season for the 2019 elections officially kicks off today, President Buhari and the All Progressives Congress (APC) has released its roadmap. The roadmap themed Next Level is geared toward seeking re-election across all thirty-six state of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory. See below full text of the…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s opposition leader Atiku Abubakar launched his presidential campaign on Monday vowing to create millions of jobs to tackle rising inequality and insecurity in Africa’s top oil producer. Seated for a nine-minute address streamed live on Facebook and Twitter, Abubakar laid out his plan to “get Nigeria working again”. “The sad fact…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former Federal Commissioner for Information and South-South Leader, Chief Edwin Clark, yesterday, gave an insight into why leaders of the South-South and Middle Belt Leaders Forum are backing former Vice President and presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar as the country’s next President. According to him, it became…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has sued an online journalist and radio presenter, Mr Akanda Oro, popularly known as Awikonko, for N1bn. Obasanjo described as untrue claims by the reporter that he had a hand in the assassination of the late Attorney General of the Federation, Chief Bola Ige (SAN), and the slain…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Four staff members of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), a member of the NYSC and a three-year-old girl on Saturday died in an accident along Ajaokuta–Lokoja Road. According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the victims were returning in the evening from Ayingba, Kogi, where they attended the wedding ceremony…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As campaigns for the Presidential and National Assembly elections, President Muhammadu Buhari has decided to first showcase his achievements and projections for the next four years to Nigerians before the official flag-off of the campaigns. According to a statement by Festus Keyamo, SAN, Director, Strategic Communications, President Muhammadu Buhari Campaign Organisation, the…
