LAGOS AUGUST 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-FIFA is joining forces with the African Union, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Confederation of African Football (CAF) to jointly address the issue of domestic violence by launching the #SafeHome campaign across the African continent. The initiative is designed to support women and children victims of domestic violence, particularly as…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The re-election bid of President Muhammadu Buhari got a boost on Monday when Mr Olujonwo Obasanjo, son of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, stormed the United States to galvanise Nigerians to support Buhari for the Feb. 16 presidential election. Obasanjo, who is the President, The Buhari Youth Organisation (BYO), said he was in…
LAGOS DECEMBER 26TH (NEWSRANGRS)-President Muhammadu Buhari will flag off the campaign for his second term bid in Uyo, capital of Akwa Ibom state, on Friday. Ita Enang, senior special assistant to the president on national assembly matters (senate), made the disclosure on Monday. Enang said the president would be in the state with Adams Oshiomhole,…
LAGOS DECEMBER 22ND (NESRANGERS)-The crises ravaging the All Progressives Congress, APC, across some states appear to be eating into President Muhammadu Buhari’s 2019 re-election campaign Party sources told Saturday Vanguard that a cabal has hijacked the campaign and there is an intense plot to relegate National Working Committee, NWC, members in the scheme of things….
LAGOS NOVEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s opposition leader Atiku Abubakar launched his presidential campaign on Monday vowing to create millions of jobs to tackle rising inequality and insecurity in Africa’s top oil producer. Seated for a nine-minute address streamed live on Facebook and Twitter, Abubakar laid out his plan to “get Nigeria working again”. “The sad fact…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar will kick-start his campaign for president in the 2019 election through an address to the Nigerian people on Facebook at 12 noon on Monday where he will launch his policy document. In his address the…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will on Sunday lift ban on campaign for 2019 presidential and National Assembly elections slated for Feb. 16, 2019 A statement by Mr Oluwole Osaze-Uzzi, INEC Director Of Voter Education and Publicity, on Saturday in Abuja said that political parties who fielded candidates for both elections…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Governorship candidates contesting in September 22 election in Osun State have intensified their campaigns as some of them stormed some churches with large congregations in a subtle move to solicit votes ahead of the poll. On Sunday morning, a former governor of Osun State, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, who is one of the…