LAGOS SEPTEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA) has identified communities in four states and Abuja as locations where major earthquake may likely occur in the country. The Director General of NASRDA, Prof. Seidu Mohammed, disclosed this on the sideline of the second Engr. Brig. Gen. M.O Agu (rtd) Annual Distinguished Lecture…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday in Abuja met, for the first time, with the newly appointed Director-General of the Department of State Services, Yusuf Magaji Bichi, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. When Bichi was ushered into the president’s office by protocol officials, he was asked by the president if they had met…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nura Ilyasu, the man who climbed a telecommunications mast in Abuja on Wednesday to protest the re-election bid of President Muhammadu Buhari, has finally descended. He came down from the mast on Thursday. Ilyasu touched ground at 11:25am voluntarily, after security operatives acceded to his request that he must address the press…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An undergraduate of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), Nura Iliyasu, has reportedly embarked on a one-man protest by climbing to the top of a 50-meter-mast in Abuja to object to alleged bad leadership of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration. Iliyasu, 26, will spend the next seven days starting from today,…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government, through the Federal Capital Territory Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), has urged residents to take precautions, following a purported earth tremor, which occurred in some parts of the city on Wednesday night and Thursday morning. The tremor reportedly occurred in Mpape and Maitama Districts of the FCT, Abuja. The incident…
LAGOS AUGUS 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Senate President Bukola Saraki has reacted to the raid on the residence of the leader of the Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), Chief Edwin Clark. Saraki, in a statement on Wednesday, described the action by the police officers as a “gross abuse of state institutions”. The Senate President also questioned the timing…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGRS)-Supporters of President Muhammadu Buhari have paid for and obtained the expression of interest and nomination forms valued at N45.5m for the president. Members of the group under the aegis of Nigeria Consolidation Ambassador Network were received by the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole, at the party’s national…
LAGOS AUGUST 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Indications that all might not be well with the All Progressives Congress (APC) emerged, yesterday, as some National Working Committee (NWC) members and notable leaders of the party openly challenged the decision to adopt direct primaries to elect candidates at all levels. The aggrieved party stalwarts have vowed to resist the adoption…
