LAGOS NOVEMBER 2ND(NEWSRANGERS)-The Online Publishers Association of Nigeria (OPAN) has sued the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) over what it terms the unlawful use of the Cybercrimes (Prohibition, Prevention, Etc.) Act 2015 to oppress journalists in the country. The association through its President Austyn Ogannah and General Secretary Daniel Elombah contends that the Act…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Prof. Usman Yusuf, the embattled Executive Secretary, National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), has dragged two ministers and NHIS to a Federal High Court in Abuja, challenging his suspension from office. In the suit number: FHC/ABJ/CS/1220/2018, Yusuf instituted legal action against the Honourable Minister of Health, and Attorney General of the Federation and…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-National Leader of the All Progressives Congress APC, Bola Tinubu, has said that it is impossible for the opposition party, PDP, to win the 2019 presidential election. Addressing the state house correspondents after his meeting with President Buhari at the presidential villa yesterday, October 31st, Tinubu said Nigerians will never go back…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Ope Bademosi, chairman of Credit Switch Technology, a Nigerian tech company, was murdered in the early hours of Wednesday. Bademosi was reportedly found in a pool of blood with multiple stab wounds and some witnesses, said that the father of four was murdered at his residence in Ikoyi, Lagos, by his cook….
LAGOS NOVEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-As 2019 election fever gathers momentum, over 500 pro-Buhari inter-faith clerics, yesterday, gathered at the popular Unity Fountain, Abuja, to continue with the 40 days prayer and fasting they had declared to ensure President Muhammadu Buhari was re-elected next year. The clerics, comprising Christian and Moslem faithful, who gathered with the protection…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The governorship candidate under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos State, Jimi Agbaje, has blamed the State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, for the persistent traffic congestion daily experienced by Lagosians. Agbaje said the governor lacked the authority to mandate the required agencies to fix the roads and manage traffic. He also attributed…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A former governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, a former presidential spokesman and newspaper columnist and TV anchor, Dr. Rueben Abati and Mr. Leke Shittu are being fielded as candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ogun State by the Senator Buruji Kashamu-led faction of the party, after a court…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)– At least 12 civilians were killed in multiple Boko Haram jihadist attacks targeting two villages and a camp for those displaced by the bloody conflict in northeastern Nigeria, civilian militia and residents told AFP Thursday. Jihadists in seven trucks late on Wednesday attacked Bulaburin and Kofa villages as well as a…
