LAGOS MAY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Kenyan President, Uhuru Kenyatta has appealed to incoming President of Nigeria Bola Ahmed Tinunu to unite Nigeria irrespective of ethnic, political and religious cleavages that may exist. In his speech as the keynote speaker at the inaugural lecture on Saturday, he said the contest is now over and the hardwork of…
LAGOS MAY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Political economist and a former presidential aspirant, Prof. Pat Utomi has admitted collecting a sum of $2,000 from Nigeria’s president-elect, Bola Tinubu for an MIT event over two decades ago. Mr Utomi mentioned this in a Twitter post on Friday morning amid an allegation that Tinubu used him to sponsor Peter Obi’s…
LAGOS MAY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s incoming President Bola Tinubu will inherit anaemic economic growth, record debt and shrinking oil output, but before he can start fixing these pressing problems he will need to secure public support for painful decisions. Life is tough for citizens of Africa’s biggest economy, and a tangle of protectionist economic policies and…
LAGOS MAY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Labour Party (LP) and its presidential candidate, Peter Obi have been given three weeks’ ultimatum to present their petitions against the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal sitting at the Court of Appeal in Abuja. The Presidential Tribunal made this known on Tuesday in a declaration made…
LAGOS MAY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 presidential election, Mr Peter Obi, on Saturday, demanded seven weeks to produce witnesses to establish his case at the Presidential Election Petition Court. He also stated that he would present 50 witnesses that would testify and tender evidence to establish that the 2023…
LAGOS MAY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A chieftain of the main opposition, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Olabode George, has again given another angle as to why Bola Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, should not have been declared winner of the presidential election. The former deputy national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP who…
LAGOS MAY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 elections, said the basis of the telephone conversation between Antony Blinken, US secretary of state, and Bola Tinubu, president-elect, is unclear. In a series of tweets posted on Friday, Obi said the US should wait for the presidential election tribunal’s…
LAGOS MAY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari will on Thursday, May 25 confer national honours on President-elect Bola Tinubu and Kashim Shettima, the vice-president-elect. Tinubu will be conferred with the Grand Commander of the Order of the Federal Republic (GCFR) while Shettima will be honoured with the Grand Commander of the Order of the Niger (GCON)….
