LAGOS MAY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A civil society organization, Advocacy for Societal Rights Advancement and Development Initiative (ASRADI), has lodged a lawsuit with a Federal High Court in Abuja, seeking to prevent the planned inauguration of Bola Tinubu as the President of Nigeria. POLITICS NIGERIA reports that the suit, labelled FHC/ABJ/CS/669/2023, accuses Tinubu of perjury due to…
LAGOS MAY 16H (NEWSRANGERSA BBC investigation has found evidence suggesting some results from Nigeria’s presidential election may have been manipulated. The winner Bola Tinubu is due to be inaugurated on 29 May but the opposition is challenging this. The BBC has uncovered significant anomalies in Rivers state, a key battleground, although not sufficient to change…
LAGOS MAY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The President-elect, Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday, left Nigeria for Europe on a working visit. This is coming Two weeks after he returned to the country from a trip to London, Saudi Arabia and Paris. This was contained in a statement signed by his media aide, Tunde Rahman. According to the statement,…
LAGOS MAY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President-elect Bola Tinubu has congratulated Osun State Governor Ademola Adeleke over his victory at the Supreme Court, urging him to now move quickly to unite the state. The President-elect said with the final court in the land giving its verdict on the Osun governorship tussle, all must respect the judgement. Asíwájú Tinubu…
LAGOS MAY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The President-elect, Bola Tinubu; Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola; Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu; a former Osun State governor, Gboyega Oyetola, and an associate, Oladipo Eludoyin, have been allegedly linked to 20 properties bought in the United Kingdom when he (Tinubu) was serving as Lagos State governor. According to…
LAGOS MAY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Sam Omatseye, a renowned Nigerian columnist, has revealed that two governors were also making lists of what they will ask the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, to do but they threw the lists away after Tinubu told Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State that he owed him nothing. While speaking during an interview with…
LAGOS MAY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-On the occasion of commemoration of the 2023 World Press Freedom Day, the Nigerian National Committee of the Vienna-based International Press Institute (IPI) is asking the new government that will be inaugurated in Nigeria on May 29 to commit to creating a better operating environment for journalists and media organisations. The group…
LAGOS MAY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The President-elect, Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday, rejected a request made by the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, for a refund for the construction of some federal roads in the state. Tinubu spoke while inaugurating the Rumuokwuta-Rumuola Flyover in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State. While noting how the state had to…
