By Amos Okioma LAGOS JUNE 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Bayelsa State Commissioner for Information, Mr. Daniel Iworiso-Markson has disclosed that the Government inherited a bond of N120 billion from the Chief Timipre Sylva Administration at inception in 2012 and would complete repayment in June. The Commissioner noted that Bayelsa State Governor, Chief Seriake Dickson should be commended…
LAGOS JUNE 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has threatened African Independent Television (AIT) and RayPower FM over some reports it considered offensive. The regulatory body accused the broadcast stations of airing “offensive, unfair and unprofessional” content in violation of its rules. In letters sent to the broadcast station, Armstrong Idachaba, the commission’s director of…
LAGOS MAY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-If feelers seeping out from the Kwara State chapter of the ruling All Progressives Congress is anything to go, there is a titanic battle currently ongoing between two of the state’s prominent people in what amounts to a straight shoot-out for control of the local chapter of the APC. Both camps have…
LAGOS MAY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A chieftain of the PDP, Sen. Adeseye Ogunlewe, said on Friday that he was set to dump the opposition party for the ruling APC. Ogunlewe, a former Minister of Works, confirmed the development in an interview with a political correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos State. He was reacting…
LAGOS APRIL 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent National Electoral Commission has declared the All Progressives Congress candidate, Mr Kolawole Taiwo, winner of Ajeromi-Ifelodun Federal Constituency election. INEC conducted the supplementary election in 71 polling units across eight wards of Ajeromi-Ifelodun Federal Constituency of Lagos State for the House of Representatives seat. The commission had declared the Feb….
LAGOS MARCH 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Oil magnet, publisher and winner of Anambra South Senatorial district election, Dr Ifeanyi Ubah has denied stories making the rounds that he has defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC. Ubah has recently been fraternizing and conducting Senate leader, Senator Ahmad Lawan and other senators round Igbo communities and establishments in Lagos…
LAGOS MARCH 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, says the ruling party will not cede its leadership positions in the House of Representatives to the opposition. Oshiomhole said this, yesterday, in Abuja at a meeting convened by the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) with newly elected members of the…
LAGOS MARCH 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council has sent a petition to the Inspector General of Police and the Department of State Services asking both agencies to investigate the Peoples Democratic Party over its alleged access to the server of the Independent National Electoral Commission. Director of Strategic Communications of the APC…