LAGOS AUGUST 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Following the failed invasion of the Edo State House of Assembly (EDHA) Complex, the Speaker of the Assembly, Rt. Hon. Frank Okiye, has advised the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, not to allow his office to be used by unscrupulous persons to turn Edo State into…
LAGOS JULY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-West African leaders were in talks in Bamako on Thursday in a fresh push to end an escalating political crisis in the fragile state of Mali. In an exceptional one-day summit, the presidents of Senegal, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria and Niger were meeting Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita and leaders of a…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gombe- Former Governor of Gombe State and a serving Senator, Mohammad Danjuma Goje has called on President Muhammdu Buhari to quickly intervene and douse the lingering tension between Gombe and Bauchi States over the ownership of some oil wells recently discovered in the two States. There was wide jubilation in the two…
LAGOS OCTOBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, embattled National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), said on Tuesday that Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State was blackmailing him so that he would succumb to the governor’s selfish desires. The governor had, on Sunday, led a delegation of leaders from Ogun State to the official…
LAGOS JULY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The security crisis ravaging English-speaking regions of Cameroon is driving away many of the biggest traders originally from neighbouring Nigeria who have traditionally run key markets in towns around the regions, a report by Quartz Africa said. The crisis, which started as a modest industrial strike action by English-speaking lawyers and teachers…
LAGOS APRIL 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Three members of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) in Benue State were reportedly killed and several others wounded in the fracas that trailed the party’s senatorial caucus meeting, held in Otukpo, on Friday. Otukpo is the headquarters of Benue South senatorial district. According to a Sunday Tribune source, the fight broke…
LAGOS MARCH 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The crisis rocking the former ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is yet to abate as three former ministers are leading an exodus of top members of the party after efforts to heal the wounds of the last national convention of the party hit the rocks. The Nation reports that the ex-information minister…