LAGOS FEBRUARY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The results of the election for chairmanship in the six area councils of the federal capital territory (FCT) conducted on Saturday have started trickling in. Unlike in the 36 states where state electoral commissions conduct the council elections, the FCT council election is conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). According…
LAGOS JANUARY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-All Progressives Congress chieftain, Bola Tinubu, has travelled out of Nigeria weeks after declaring his intention to contest the 2023 presidential election, The PUNCH has learnt. A member of the Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu Movement’s Working Committees told our correspondent on Friday that the former Lagos State governor travelled overseas to rest…
LAGOS JANUARY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Associates of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, former governor of Lagos State and national leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), have been at daggers drawn over the 2023 presidential election and the rift may escalate in the coming days, Daily Independent has gathered. Tinubu, a fortnight ago, informed President Muhammadu Buhari of…
LAGOS JANUARY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Abia State Governor and Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, has said he will be ready to contest the All Progressives Congress(APC) presidential ticket with former Governor of Lagos State, Bola Tinubu, if the party wins the ticket to the South. Speaking in an interview on Tuesday, Kalu…
LAGOS DECEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Director-General of Voice of Nigeria (VON) and founding member of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Osita Okechukwu, has urged former Lagos state Governor, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu to be a kingmaker, drop his presidential ambition and back a younger candidate from the south in line with the zoning convention. Okechukwu said,…
LAGOS DECEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ahead of the 2023 presidential election, a fresh crisis is brewing in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) over the ambition of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, former governor of Lagos State, to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari as Nigeria’s next leader. Even though Tinubu is yet to formally declare his interest in the presidential…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The All Progressives Congress (APC) has run into fresh murky waters as a faction sacks Mai Mala Buni. The faction has also attacked President Buhari over his supervision of the party. Buni, Yobe State Governor, is Chairman, APC Caretaker/Extraordinary National Convention Planning Committee (CECPC). On Monday, a unit within the party, Progressive…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Iyaloja General of Nigeria, Folasade Tinubu-Ojo has placed the Otto Modern Market, Oyingbo, Lagos State, on lock and key for the past two weeks, SaharaReporters has learnt. Folashade, who is the daughter of National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, reportedly locked the gate to the plaza over complaints…