LAGOS SEPTEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Key stakeholders of the governing APC in Lagos are mounting enormous pressure on Lagos Governor Akinwunmi Ambode to drop out of the governorship race, endorse Mr. Babajide Sanwoolu as the party’s flagbearer ahead of the 2019 general poll, or risk disgrace at the primary election. Ambode has fallen out of favour with…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode on Wednesday totally played down speculation of rift with the National Leader of All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, saying reports to such effect were untrue. Both the social and traditional media have been flooded with news of a major rift between Tinubu and Governor…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon. Mudashiru Obasa, has refuted claims that the State Assembly is planning to impeach the State Governor, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode. Obasa who was responding to Daily Trust enquiries through his Chief Press Secretary, Musibau Razak, said there is no iota of truth in…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 12TH (NESRANGERS)-The quest of Akinwunmi Ambode to win a second term as Governor of Lagos State now looks more daunting than ever, following the emergence of evidence than Bola Tinubu, former Governor of the state and National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has endorsed Jide Sanwonolu, who served as a commissioner…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Femi Otedola, a businessman and Chairman of Forte Oil PLC, has “accepted” the offer of a governorship ticket by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). According to Dele Momodu, Publisher of Ovation magazine, Otedola “personally confirmed” the news to him, meaning he will run against Akinwunmi Ambode, the incumbent Governor and candidate of…
LAGOS AUGUST 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Hundreds of workers under of the Cleaner Lagos Initiative (CLI) of the Lagos State Government on Monday, staged a protest at the office of Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode. The workers, who chanted solidarity songs and displayed banners with different inscriptions said that they are being owed salaries for July and Aug. 2018. Inscriptions…
LAGOS JULY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian fans stranded in Russia have been given bail out by Lagos State governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, who paid for their return flights. Nnamdi Odimegwu, a motivational speaker, who made the disclosure, said the governor assigned him to ensure the about 50 stranded Nigerians return back to the country safely. According to him,…
LAGOS JUNE 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Lagos state says it has ordered additional 820 new buses as some of those already delivered recently tested the constructed terminals in preparation for the take-off of the Bus Reform Initiative (BRI) of the government. The initiative is designed to bequeath a world class transportation system and enhance connectivity across the state,…