LAGOS JULY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A hybrid party that will accommodate aggrieved members of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, and those of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the run-up to the 2023 general elections is being worked on by former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Sunday Vanguard learned. A competent source told Sunday Vanguard that…
LAGOS JULY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Few days after the national secretariat of the All Progressives Congress (APC) was named after President Muhammadu Buhari, there was pandemonium yesterday over rumours that the building was quaking, and was about to collapse. It was unclear what could have been responsible for the rumoured collapse of the secretariat of the ruling…
LAGOS JULY 1ST (NEWRANGERS)-The spokesperson of the People Democratic Party (PDP), Kola Ologbondiyan, has alleged that the leadership of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) is going about intimidating governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party to join the APC. While appearing as a guest on Channels Television’s Politics Today monitored by…
LAGOS JUNE 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There was tension at Tunga Maje village, near Zuba, in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), when gunmen stormed a hotel and abducted about six guests and the owner of the hotel. The guests, Hon. Friday Sani Makama, Prince Frederick Adejoh and others yet to be identified, were taken away in a commando-style…
LAGOS JUNE 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In a moment of anger and lack of critical reflection unbecoming of a democratically elected government, and with complete disregard to our rights, the Buhari Administration on June 4 announced an indefinite ban on the operations of “the microblogging and social networking service, Twitter in Nigeria.” Segun Adeyemi, Special Assistant To The…
LAGOS MAY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The All Progressives Congress [APC)’s primaries were truncated in many parts of Lagos on Saturday by hoodlums and party officials allegedly favouring particular candidates ahead of the July 24 local government elections. Hundreds of aggrieved APC members on Saturday kept vigil at the party’s state secretariat in Lagos to ventilate their anger…
LAGOS MAY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Cross River State governor, Ben Ayade, has defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Ayade announced his decision on Thursday morning during a meeting with six APC governors at the Government House in Calabar. The governors were led by the national caretaker chairman of the APC and Yobe State governor,…
LAGOS MAY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Minister of Women Affairs of Nigeria, Aisha Jummai Al-Hassan, popularly known as Mama Taraba is dead. Her media aide, Bala Maina, confirmed the incident to Channels Television via the telephone on Friday. The ex-minister was said to have passed away at an undisclosed hospital in Cairo, Egypt. She was 61 years…