LAGOS FEBRUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Peoples Democratic Party Chairman for the FCT, Sunday Zaka, is dead. A family member who pleaded anonymity because he was not authorized to announced it confirmed the development to Vanguard on Saturday. He said, “Our brother, the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) Chairman in the Federal Capital Territory, died in a motor…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps vehicle conveying election materials from Abuja to Lagos crashed on Friday evening, election eve. The accident reportedly occurred at the Giri Roundabout bridge in Abuja. The vehicle was also carrying operatives of the NSCDC to Lagos. In a video on social media, people are seen rendering…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Ahead of Saturday’s presidential election, members of the Labour Party and supporters of its presidential candidate, Peter Obi, on Wednesday, stormed the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in Abuja to canvas for a free, fair and credible poll. The group, under the umbrella of Citizen Advocates 4 Labour Party…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A branch of the Guaranty Trust Bank in the Mararaba area of the Federal Capital Territory was reportedly engulfed in flames in the early hours of Friday, The PUNCH reports. The GTBank branch is located along the Nyanya and Mararaba Expressway before Abacha Road, Karu. Mararaba is a border town, between the…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Following the huge boost to his campaign earlier in the day with the endorsement of the Ijaw nation, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Mr. Peter Obi, on Thursday stormed Abuja for his campaign. Obi declared to the people that he and his running mate, Yusuf Datti-Ahmed, are just tools…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Col. Hameed Ali (rtd) has disclosed that the service did not meet its 2022 revenue collection target. He made the disclosure on Thursday in Abuja while fielding questions from newsmen at a briefing to mark the end of a three-day global conference organised by…
LAGOS JANUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Federal High Court in Abuja has granted an application seeking leave to serve the court papers on the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, over money laundering allegations. The court on Thursday granted the application directing the service of the papers through the Atiku Abubakar Campaign Organisation…
LAGOS JANUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former General Manager and Head of Legal Services of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund, NSITF, Sir Adebayo Aderibigbe and one Ogundele Mura Yisa-Yemi have been arraigned in court for alleged N60 million fraud. They were arraigned on Wednesday by Nigeria’s anti-corruption agency, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), before Justice…