LAGOS NOVEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)_The Nigerian Election Debate Group has fixed January 19, 2019 for a debate for presidential candidates of different political parties taking part in the 2019 elections. The vice presidential candidates are billed to have their debate on December 14, 2018. The group’s chairman, Mr. John Momoh, disclosed this at a press conference…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-President Mohammadu Buhari, Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Former Vice President Namadi Sambo, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, as well as former presidents of Ghana, Benin, Sierra Leone and others eulogized former President Goodluck Jonathan for stabilizing Nigeria after he lost the 2015 general presidential elections. The leaders…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Former President Goodluck Jonathan marked his 61st birthday on Tuesday with the public presentation of his memoir, My Transition Hours, at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel in Abuja. The book chronicles all the intrigues before his exit from office in May 2015. Dignitaries at the book presentation were former president Olusegun Obasanjo, former…
LAGOS OCTOBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Presidential aspirants on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party were on Friday night handed over the list of delegates that would take part in the presidential primary scheduled for Port Harcourt, Rivers State on Saturday (today). However, one of our correspondents gathered that some of the aspirants were apprehensive that the…
LAGOS AUGUST 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-With the publication of notice of polls by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) last Friday, and the primaries coming up later this month, the countdown to the 2019 polls may have begun in earnest. With barely seven months to the 2019 general polls, permutations on their possible outcome have been the…
LAGOS JULY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Chairman Uche Secondus has invited presidential aspirants, governors, senators and other leaders to a meeting today in Abuja. The meeting is coming amid plans by leaders of the Reformed-All Progressives Congress(R-APC) to defect to the PDP. The presidential aspirants invited are: ex-Vice President Atiku Abubakar, ex-Governor…
LAGOS JUNE 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former Governor of Kano State, Sen. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, on Saturday night paid a courtesy visit to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar at his residence in Asokoro, Abuja. Kwankwaso arrived at Atiku’s residence at 8.30pm and went into a closed-door meeting with the former Vice President. The details of their meeting…
