LAGOS JANUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-LABOUR Party, LP, presidential candidate during the February 25, 2023 General Elections, Peter Obi, has kicked against what he described as Federal Government’s disturbing pattern of huge borrowing and profligate spending on non-essential procurements, warning that such pattern would soon wreck the economy. .The former Anambra State governor also condemned Federal Government’s…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An Appeal Court sitting in Lagos State on Tuesday dismissed the petition filed by the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State, Patrick Tonye-Cole, against Governor Siminalayi Fubara of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The APC candidate, who was present in…
LAGOS OCTOBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, has arrested 56-year-old chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Roni Local Government Area, Saleh Idris for allegedly raping his housegirl. Spokesman of the Jigawa State Command of the NSCDC, CSC Adamu Shehu confirmed the arrest in a statement issued to DAILY POST….
LAGOS OCTOBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Justice Donatus Okorowo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, in a judgement delivered on Monday, disqualified the Bayelsa State All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate in the November 11 governorship election, Chief Timipre Sylva. Justice Okorowo ruled that Chief Sylva having been sworn in twice and ruled for five years as governor of…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has stated that the All Progressives Congress-led government has set Nigeria 40 years backwards economically. He lamented that the APC has wiped out all the gains the country made in 35 years. The former Emir of Kano made the…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Cross River State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal in Calabar in its final judgment has dismissed Prof. Sandy Onor’s petition against the electoral victory of Senator Bassey Otu as governor of the state. The tribunal upheld Otu’s election, saying the petitioner’s case lacked merit. The PDP petition in a Suit Number: EPT/CR/GOV/02/2023…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Several websites established around the time of Nigeria’s general elections in February 2023 are reaching thousands of people while spreading false news, the BBC has found. A high number of adverts on the websites mean they can be profiting from the spread of disinformation. They weave false stories with factual news…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Wednesday’s judgement of the President Election Petition Court will not mark the end of the controversies trailing the outcome of the 2023 presidential election. News Direct recalls that the five-man panel, in a final judgement read by Justice Haruna Simon Tsammani, struck out the three petitions filed by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Labour…