LAGOS APRIL 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The House of Representatives has reminded the Rivers State Sole Administrator, Vice Admiral Ibok Ete Ibas (retd.), that he does not have the constitutional mandate or power to make laws for the running of the oil-rich state. The House stated this against the backdrop of the administrator’s plan to come up with…
LAGOS MARCH 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Chatham House, an independent policy institute based in London, has stated in an analysis by one of its fellows that the February 25 presidential election showed that the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC failed to learn new lessons. The London-based institute stressed that the electoral umpire failed to adhere to its own…
LAGOS MARCH 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Political Analyst, Sam Amadi, has insisted that the way INEC handled objections which were raised by some political parties during the announcement of the presidential election results contributed to the disputes being recorded currently. Sam Amadi went on to say that he has been able to identify four adminstrative errors that…
LAGOS APRIL 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria will next year conduct its first census in 17 years to try to accurately survey its population, estimated at more than 200 million people and the largest in Africa, the head of the national population agency said on Thursday. Censuses are controversial in Nigeria because rival ethnic and religious groups have…
