LAGOS APRIL 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There was tension on Saturday in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, following gunshots that rang out at the venue of a mega rally organised by a political group, NEW Associates, loyal to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike. The rally, which was being hosted by George Turnah, a prominent…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent National Electoral Commission has insisted that electronic collation of results is illegal in Nigeria. The commission said this against the backdrop of expectations that the results of Saturday’s off-cycle governorship elections in Imo, Kogi, and Bayelsa states would be transmitted electronically. The Chief Press Secretary to the INEC chairman, Rotimi…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Two days after the United States Deputy Treasury Secretary, Wally Adeyemo visited Nigeria as part of U.S. efforts to strengthen economic ties between both countries and a day after President Bola Tinubu, presently in the U.S. for the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), advised Nigerians in abroad to return home, the U.S….
LAGOS JUNE 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have abducted the Operations Manager of the Sterling Bank, Mrs. Nneka Enuka Ugonochie in Bayelsa State. Daily Trust gathered that the incident, which occured on Friday around the PDP Junction of the Sanni Abacha Expressway in Yenagoa, caught many residents unaware due to the multiple presence of…
LAGOS MAY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Amidst the ongoing internal wrangling in Labour Party (LP), the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Friday published the names and particulars of candidates produced by the mainstream Barr. Julius Abure-led faction of the party while ignoring Lamidi Apapa-led National Working Committee. The Julius Abure and Lamidi Apapa factions of the party…
LAGOS APRIL 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), has signed a memorandum of understanding with the United States Consulate and a United States-based firm, Atlanta Global Resources Inc., AGRI, to build a railway network that will connect the nine states of the Niger Delta region. The ceremony, which was a part of the one-day…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Assistant Inspector General of Police in charge of Delta and Bayelsa, Lawan Tanko Jimeta, is dead Channels Television gathered that AIG Jimeta died on Sunday morning at the Benin Teaching Hospital after a brief illness. A post by the spokesman for Bauchi State Police Command, Ahmed Wakil, confirmed AIG Jimeta’s death….
Managing Director of Brikari Nigeria Limited, waste management contractor of Bayelsa State Government, Mr. Bright Ayebakari, has disclosed that no week passes without officials discovering corpses of little children, severed body parts, arms and ammunition in refuse receptacles in the state. Ayebakari, who spoke to NDV in Yenagoa, on refuse disposal and challenges in the…