http://ift.tt/2npFEoG LAGOS DECEMBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has hit back at Atiku Abubakar for saying the former was banned from the United States for about 15 years. The president said the claim by Atiku, who recently dumped the All Progressives Congress (APC) is simply the figment of his imagination. Atiku had reportedly said for about…

http://ift.tt/2AT1gjo Atiku Abubakar LAGOS DECEMBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari was banned from entering the United States because Americans had reservations about his religious views, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar said Friday. Critics have long accused Mr. Buhari of holding religious views antithetical to modern democratic principles, a charge the president has repeatedly rejected. In 2001,…

http://ift.tt/2iaNNrE LAGOS DECEMBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has said defeating President Muhammadu Buhari will be a cakewalk for him if the president runs against him in 2019. Mr. Abubakar said Mr. Buhari has become politically weak after squandering the goodwill Nigerians accorded him during the 2015 elections. “I will definitely beat him this…

http://ift.tt/2iGsEK8 LAGOS DECEMBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-At least 17 people have been killed in two suspected Boko Haram suicide bombings on a market in the northeastern Nigerian town of Biu, officials have told Al Jazeera. Forty-seven others were wounded in Saturday’s explosions, and many were in criticial condition, said Al Jazeera’s Ahmed Idris, reporting from the capital,…

http://ift.tt/2ANelec Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan LAGOS DECEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The South-South Coalition for Good Governance has raised alarm over a clandestine move to scuttle the chance of Prince Uche Secondus emerging as National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic (PDP) in the December 9national convention of the party?. The group in a statement signed by its Co-coordinator, Bar….

http://ift.tt/2AMoWpC Seriake Dickson LAGOS DECEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Bayelsa State Governor, Honourable Henry Seriake Dickson, has appealed to leaders and members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to eschew rancour and divisive tendencies that could mar the December 9 national convention of the party. Governor Dickson, in a statement by his Special Adviser on Public Affairs, Daniel…

http://ift.tt/2nlu1zl LAGOS DECEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A rights group under the aegis of Global peace and life rescue initiative (GOPRI) has commended the military on the achievements and the show of sportsmanship in their various operations all across the country. According to a statement from the Executive Director, Amb Melvin Ejeh, since President Muhammadu Buhari assumed the…

http://ift.tt/2nlue5B Buharo (Centre) By Dr Christopher Yakubu LAGOS DECEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGRS)-Since President Muhammadu Buhari assumed the reins of leadership in May 2015, the army has carried out quite some operations as it continues to protect the nation’s territorial integrity. Operation Lafiya Dole (North East Nigeria) Operation Lafiya Dole is the army’s code name for the…