LAGOS SEPTEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Department of State Services (DSS) has arrested Kingsley Obiora, deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in charge of economic policy. According to reports, his arrest followed allegations of financial mismanagement under Godwin Emefiele, suspended CBN governor. Reports said Obiora was being targeted as a principal witness against Emefiele,…
LAGOS AUGUST 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Edo State Government has disbanded the media crew attached to the Office of the Deputy Governor, Philip Shaibu. Governor Godwin Obaseki also directed Shaibu to henceforth request for media coverage of his activities from the Ministry of Communication and Orientation. Obaseki stated this in a statement issued by the Commissioner for…
By Ibru Nejuvie LAGOS APRIL 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-It was Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State who first courageously mooted the idea of scrapping the obnoxious and homogous pensions for Ex-Governors and their deputies in Lagos State.Apparently, his courage and convictions was put to test after external forces began to pressure him to forgo that line of…
LAGOS AUGUST 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Edo State Deputy Governor, Rt. Hon. Comr. Philip Shaibu, has raised the alarm over the importation of assassins by the sacked national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), to assassinate some individuals in the state. Speaking to journalists in Benin City, the Edo State capital, Shaibu said the mode of entry…
LAGOS JULY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ondo State Deputy Governor, Agboola Ajayi has rushed to an Abuja High Court where he filed legal proceedings seeking to stop the impeachment proceeding and enforced his fundamental right of association against the impeachment process of members of Ondo state House of Assembly. Other defendants in the suit were the Inspector General…
LAGOS JUNE 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Embattled Governor of Edo state, Godwin Obaseki has secure the endorsement of all the governors of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the-South South to represent the main opposition party in the September governorship election in the state. However, the state’s Deputy Governor Hon. Phillip Shaibu will be the sacrificial lamb for…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The deputy Governor of Sokoto State, Alhaji Ahmed Aliyu has allegedly resigned. Ahmed is the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state and he is expected to contest against his former boss, Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, who may fly the flag of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A former governor of Ogun State, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, a former presidential spokesman and newspaper columnist and TV anchor, Dr. Rueben Abati and Mr. Leke Shittu are being fielded as candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ogun State by the Senator Buruji Kashamu-led faction of the party, after a court…