LAGOS AUGUST 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Tobi Amusan has not been given the all-clear to defend her title at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary next week, according to World Athletics. The Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN) had excluded her name from the upcoming competition as a result of the doping investigation she was undergoing. But the AFN…
LAGOS JULY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Anambra Governor and presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has denied reports that he is aspiring for the 2027 presidential election from 2023. In a statement on his Twitter handle, Obi said the reports are “bogus” and that he has never granted any interview or press remarks to…
LAGOS MAY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Political economist and a former presidential aspirant, Prof. Pat Utomi has admitted collecting a sum of $2,000 from Nigeria’s president-elect, Bola Tinubu for an MIT event over two decades ago. Mr Utomi mentioned this in a Twitter post on Friday morning amid an allegation that Tinubu used him to sponsor Peter Obi’s…
LAGOS APRIL 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Chinese Embassy in Nigeria has expressed dissatisfaction with media report claiming that Chinese people bribed militants in the country in order to have access to vast mineral reserves, insisting that Chinese government and his people have never been involved in any act of terrorism in any part of the country. The…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Central Bank of Nigeria has debunked claims about the incapacity of the Nigerian Security Printing and Minting PLC. The apex bank also denied claims that it plans to shut down commercial banks in a geo-political zone. This was disclosed in a statement signed on Friday by CBN’s Director of Corporate Communications,…
LAGOS DECEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria military has denied report in several headlines and news purporting to suggest that the Chief of Defence Staff, General Lucky Irabor CFR, had alluded to the military (and other security agencies) being under pressure to compromise the 2023 elections. The Nigeria Military in a statement signed by Major General Jimmy…
LAGOS DECEMBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Labour Party has described the sack of the Director General of its Presidential Campaign Council, Dr Doyin Okupe, as unfounded and affirmed that his position in the party is intact. The Ogun State chapter of the party had on Thursday suspended Okupe and others for breaching the rules of the Labour…
LAGOS OCTOBER 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi has denied releasing his manifesto ahead of the 2023 presidential election. The former Anambra state governor revealed this on Monday via his verified Twitter handle. He wrote, “We have not formally released our Manifesto. I will do so personally. It seems an earlier…