LAGOS FEBRUARY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Ahead of Saturday’s Presidential and National Assembly elections, President Muhammadu Buhari convened the National Security Council, NSC, meeting yesterday, with the Inspector General of Police IGP, Usman Alkali Baba, revealing that the force is investigating individuals, including state governors, whose utterances were considered to have incited citizens to riot over the naira […]
Feb 23 2023 | Posted in
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LAGOS FEBRUARY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Three state governors — from Kaduna, Kogi and Zamfara in the north of the country — all belonging to the ruling party sued the federal government, seeking the suspension of the central bank’s plan that has caused a cash crisis and disrupted transactions in Africa’s largest economy. The governors appealed to the […]
Feb 6 2023 | Posted in
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LAGOS JANUARY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari “to direct the Inspector-General of Police Usman Baba to promptly, thoroughly, and transparently investigate the reported attack on the Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, after a rally in Katsina state, and other cases of election-related intimidation, harassment and violence across […]
Jan 30 2023 | Posted in
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LAGOS JUNE 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The post-Convention crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) took another twist on Wednesday as most governors elected on the platform of the party boycotted the inauguration of the Gubernatorial National Campaign Council for Osun State. PDP had named a 128-member national campaign council, which included 12 governors. But at the inauguration […]
Jun 30 2022 | Posted in
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LAGOS JUNE 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday asked state governors from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) party to support him in choosing a successor who would stand for election in a presidential contest in February 2023. Nigerians will go to the polls to choose a new president as Buhari will step down […]
Jun 1 2022 | Posted in
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LAGOS APRIL 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Amid declarations from different Southern politicians, some Governors are pushing for a Northerner to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023, POLITICS NIGERIA exclusively gathered. Based on the existing North/South rotation, the All Progressives Congress reportedly zoned the office of the President to the South since the outgoing President is a Northerner. Yemi […]
Apr 25 2022 | Posted in
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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 […]
Apr 18 2022 | Posted in
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LAGOS DECEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ahead of the 2023 presidential election, a fresh crisis is brewing in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) over the ambition of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, former governor of Lagos State, to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari as Nigeria’s next leader. Even though Tinubu is yet to formally declare his interest in the presidential […]
Dec 6 2021 | Posted in
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LAGOS JULY 1ST (NEWRANGERS)-The spokesperson of the People Democratic Party (PDP), Kola Ologbondiyan, has alleged that the leadership of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) is going about intimidating governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party to join the APC. While appearing as a guest on Channels Television’s Politics Today monitored by […]
Jul 1 2021 | Posted in
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LAGOS DECEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Police Force has filed a suit at the Federal High Court in Abuja praying for an order stopping the various states’ judicial panels of enquiry probing allegations of rights abuses and other acts of brutality of the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad and other police tactical units. The plaintiff in the […]
Dec 3 2020 | Posted in
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