LAGOS JANUARY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The All Progressives Congress (APC) may have been thrown into another round of confusion ahead of the 2019 general elections as posters of Ambassador Babagana Kingibe flood Abuja and other Nigerian cities. This is happening barely a week after former President Olusegun Obasanjo stoked controversy in a letter to President Muhammadu Buhari…
LAGOS JANUARY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A female graduate and a secondary school drop-out have been arrested by the officers of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, with illicit drugs. The suspects arrested are Harriet Bolatito Solabi, a 34-year old Higher National Diploma holder, and Victor Chukwu, a school drop-out. Solabi…
LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerians have begun to sell the 13-page statement addressed to President Muhammadu Buhari by a former Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo, in traffic in major cities around the country. PREMIUM TIMES reporter observed on Wednesday that in Lagos, copies of the ‘special statement’ printed and bound were being displayed and sold in traffic…
LAGOS JANUARY 22ND(NEWSRANGERS)-Fuel queues resurfaced weekend in major cities of Lagos, Abuja, Nasarawa and other parts of the country despite repeated assurances by Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to wet the country with enough petroleum product this new year. Already, most service stations owned my Major Oil Marketers Association of Nigeria (MOMAN) monitored b were…
LAGOS JANUARY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Members of the ‘Fresh PDP’ on Saturday willingly dissolved the recalcitrant group after a marathon meeting with some chieftains of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Led by one Chief Olukayode Akindele, the group agreed to drop its decision to create a breakaway faction of the opposition party and pledged loyalty to the…
LAGOS JANUARY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has on Thursday dismissed the application by the Indegenous People of Biafra, IPOB to reverse the court’s order proscribing it and designating it as a terrorist group. The Acting Chief Justice, Abdu Kafarati, while delivering his ruling on the application, resolved all the three formulated…