LAGOS SEPTEMBER- (NEWSRANGERS) – The Supreme Court, on Monday, struck out an appeal seeking the disqualification of President Muhammadu Buhari as a candidate in the last presidential election. The case was anchored on the allegation that Buhari submitted false information regarding his academic qualification and certificate to the Independent National Electoral Commission as a candidate…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER- (NEWSRANGERS) – Amid denials by officials of the Buhari administration of complicity in the botched gas supply contract that resulted in the recent $8.9billion arbitral award against Nigeria by a UK court, the founder of the company at the centre of the controversy, Michael Quinn, on Saturday named key Nigerian government officials who…
LAGOS AUUST 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari departed Abuja Sunday night for Japan to participate in the Seventh Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD7) slated for the City of Yokohama from August 28 to 30. Buhari’s participation will be his second, having attended TICAD6 in Nairobi, Kenya, in August 2016. He was accompanied by Governors…
LAGOS AUGUST 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has explained that there was no way Atiku Abubakar, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 presidential election, could have won. INEC said Atiku was not declared winner of the exercise because it was satisfied that the PDP candidate did not secure majority…
LAGOS AUGUST 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the February 23 presidential election, Atiku Abubakar, and his party has insisted that President Muhammadu Buhari was not qualified to have contested the poll and as such, should be disqualified by the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal. Besides, the petitioners in their final address to…
LAGOS AUGUST 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has thanked millions of Nigerians, who deliberately ignored calls on social media to join a phantom ‘revolution’ but instead went about their businesses. The President made his feelings known in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, in Abuja on Monday. Shehu…
LAGOS AUGUST 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Human rights lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Mr Mike Ozekhome, has accused the President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration of not being tolerant to criticism. Ozekhome, who appeared as a guest on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics, said the current government is “allergic to plurality of voices and criticism”. He said: “Dancing on…
LAGOS AUGUST 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Senior Pastor of the Awaiting The Second Coming Of Jesus Christ Gospel Church, Pastor Adewale Giwa, has declared that Pastor Enoch Adeboye, General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) and Pastor Tunde Bakare of the Latter Rain Assembly were some of the persons who caused problems befalling Nigeria….