LAGOS DECEMBER 19TH (LAGOS DECEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Sokoto State governor, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal has ordered the arrest of a musician, Adamu Ayuba for praising a bandit kingpin, Bello Turji in his music. In a viral music audio, Ayuba praised the terrorist, Turji, describing him as “a lion, untouchable and a great leader”. The governor’s order comes…
LAGOS MAY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The battle for the 2023 presidential ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will be a three-horse race between former Vice President Atiku Abubakar; former Senate President, Bukola Saraki, and Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State, Daily Independent has gathered. In October 2018, the trio were the top contenders in the presidential…
LAGOS AUGUST 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The All Progressives Congress (APC) has beckoned to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar to return to the party in the spirit of reconciliation. The ruling political grouping also extended the olive branch to ex-Senate President Bukola Saraki and Sokoto State Governor Aminu Tambuwal, as well as others who defected in 2015 till…
LAGOS JANUARY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Sokoto State Governor Aminu Tambuwal, has succeeded his outgoing Bayelsa State counterpart, Seriake Dickson as the chairman of the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Governors’ Forum. This confirmation was made in a statement issued Monday by a Special Adviser to Governor Tambuwal, Mr Mohammad Bello. The statement added that the choice of…
LAGOS JANUARY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The hearing of the appeals of Governors Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto and Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano States, including four other governors was suspended by the Supreme Court on Monday. Other governors, whose appeals were affected are Emeka Ihedioha (Imo), Bala Mohammed (Bauchi), Simon Lalong (Plateau), and Samuel Ortom (Benue). Before the apex…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Immediate past President, Dr. Goodluck Ebere Jonathan, has called on universities nationwide not to lose sight of their basic task of laying the proper character and intellectual foundations of the youth. He spoke on Saturday as the Guest Lecturer at the 6th and 7th Convocation ceremony of the Godfrey Okoye University Ugwuomu…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The 2019 All Nigeria Editors’ Conference (ANEC), the annual flagship conference of the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE), will hold at the international conference centre, Sokoto, from Wednesday, November 27 to Sunday, December 1. Acting President of the Guild, Mr. Mustapha Isah, said Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal has confirmed the readiness of…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGES)-The debate in the country for some time now has been where the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2023 would come from. And now that the petition filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, challenging the re-election of President Muhammadu Buhari in the…