LAGOS AUGUST 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it will suspend the Edo and Ondo governorship election process if the actions of political actors led to a breakdown of law and order. Mr Festus Okoye, INEC National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, announced this on Thursday in Abuja after a…
LAGOS MARCH 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)The presidency has refuted media reports on the alleged sacking of Dakuku Peterside as the Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) by President Muhammadu Buhari. The reports had claimed that President Buhari removed Peterside and appointed the Executive Director of Finance and Administration at NIMASA, Bashir Yusuf Jamoh,…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Burkina Faso army captain on Friday announced the ouster of military leader Paul-Henri Damiba and the suspension of the country’s constitution and transitional charter in a statement read on national television. Army Captain Ibrahim Traoré said a group of officers had decided to remove Damiba due to his inability to deal with a…
LAGOS JUNE 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Senatorial candidate and leader of All Progressives Congress APC in Edo Central Senatorial district Edo State, Chief Francis Inegbeniki, has insisted that Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu remains the chosen and consensus governorship candidate of the party ahead of the September 19 governorship election in Edo State. It will be recalled that last…
LAGOS JULY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has sentenced a former Executive Director of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Captain Ezekiel Bala Agaba, to seven years in prison for laundering the sum of N1.5 billion. Justice Ibrahim Buba handed down the sentence on Wednesday, after convicting the former NIMASA…
http://ift.tt/2eGoo7x Alhaj Atiku Abubakar LAGOS SEPTEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, on Wednesday reacted to report by the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, saying Nigeria is out of recession. Abubakar, who expressed joy over the report, however, said recession will end when all “Nigerians can eat three square meals.” In a series of tweets,…
LAGOS APRIL 16TH (NEWRANGERS)-The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has distanced itself from a purported cut-off mark being circulated in some sections of the media, saying it did not emanate from the board. The board’s Head of Media and Information Department, Dr Fabian Benjamin said no such cut-off mark, whether for programmes or institutions…
LAGOS AUGUST 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Months after losing his wife to cancer, Senator Ben Bruce loses brother in-law to COVID-19 Months after losing his wife to cancer, Senator Ben Murray Bruce, has lost his brother-in-law, Dr David Hargett, to the dreaded disease, COVID-19. Ben Bruce shared the sad news on his Twitter handle on Saturday, August 29….