http://ift.tt/2u6DzxF LAGOS JULY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)—The All Progressives Congress, APC, has dragged the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, before a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, challenging the commissions’ planned recall of Senator Dino Melaye, the senator representing Kogi West senatorial district in the National Assembly, without affording him fair hearing. Other plaintiffs in the case…
http://ift.tt/2vAqgW1 LAGOS JULY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The crisis rocking the Lagos State Chapter of the APC took a new twist, yesterday, as hundreds of protesters stormed the Lagos Government House, Alausa, where they demanded for the expulsion of the party’s National Legal Adviser, Dr. Muiz Banire (SAN). The protesters, who were mainly from Mushin Local Government, and…
http://ift.tt/2vgKTqS LAGOS JULY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Chieftains of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are embroiled in a fresh battle for the chairmanship of the party. This followed ?the Supreme Court verdict that ended the 14 months power tussle between senators Ahmed Makarfi and Ali Modu Sheriff. As National Caretaker Committee Chairman, Makarfi who won at the Supreme…
http://ift.tt/2uGPGEM Modu Sheriff ff,Anti-Corruption Agencies LAGOS JULY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The sacked national chairman ?of the PDP, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff has affirmed that he and his loyalists would collaborate with global anti-corruption agencies to ensure that corrupt party members were brought to book. Sheriff who disclosed last night in a statement ny his spokesman Bernard Mikko…
http://ift.tt/2uyQ1sj LAGOS JULY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)– The head of Spain’s soccer federation (RFEF) Angel Maria Villar, a FIFA vice president, was arrested on Tuesday after a raid on several offices in Madrid as part of an anti-corruption investigation, police said. Villar, his son – named by Spanish media as Gorka – and several other Spanish soccer…
http://ift.tt/2vxVWeA Acting President Yemi Osibanjo receiving Malala in state house LAGOS JULY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS) Founder of the Malala Fund and girls education activist, Malala Yousafzai has asked the Federal Government to declare a state of emergency in the education sector. She made the call on Monday after a closed door meeting with Acting President Yemi…
http://ift.tt/2vxR0q7 LAGOS JULY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Senator Jummai Alhassan on Monday visited Senator Ahmed Makarfi in PDP headquarter, Abuja. Alhassan lamented that Nigeria remained one of the most backward and poor performing countries on the African continent, in the area of women’s political participation and leadership. She said: “Although…
http://ift.tt/2uuDvKT LAGOS JULY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Corps Marshal, Dr. Boboye Oyeyemi, has condemned the unprovoked attacks and molestation of operatives of the Federal Road Safety Corps on the highways and vowed to prosecute all those involved. According to Bisi Kazeem, Corps Public Education Officer, FRSC, the Corps Marshal’s response came on the heels of the recent…