http://ift.tt/2jqTaDp LAGOS NOVEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At least three soldiers were killed and another six others were wounded in a Boko Haram raid in northeast Nigeria, the military said on Sunday, in the latest attack in the restive region. The attack happened on Saturday evening when a large number of jihadists stormed Magumeri, some 50 kilometres (30…
http://ift.tt/2zgfbvC Musiliu Obanikoro LAGOS NOVEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-All things being equal, former Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, will on Saturday defect to the All Progressives Congress (APC) at a ceremony to be held in Campus Square, Lagos Island. The decision by Obanikoro, Nigeria’s former High Commissioner to Ghana to leave his former party,…
http://ift.tt/2BfBrHe Goodluck Jonathan LAGOS NOVEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Former President Goodluck Jonathan has said his priority now is to ensure that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) regains the presidency in 2019. Speaking during a courtesy call on him by Chief Olabode George and his campaign team in his country home in Otuoke, Bayelsa State, on Tuesday, Jonathan…
http://ift.tt/2B4RjLH Buhari and Tinubu LAGOS NOVEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-National leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on Wednesday said there will be no automatic ticket for President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2019 elections. Tinubu said Buhari was a product of due process and will not want anything short of same process. The…
http://ift.tt/2zfb6rm LAGOS NOVEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Press Organisation (NPO), has expressed worry over the proliferation of beat associations and has proscribed it in the industry. The NPO, comprises of the Newspaper Proprietors’ Association of Nigeria (NPAN), the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) and the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE), The NPO said the development constitutes…
http://ift.tt/2Ar9BKW New Lagos Police Public Relation Officer, Oti LAGOS NOVEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A new Police Public Relation Officer (PPRO) has been assigned to the Lagos State Police command. He is SP Chile Godwin Oti. He hailed from Awka South Local Government Area of Anambra State. Oti who is who gradudated from Unversity of Lagos with Bsc…
http://ift.tt/2iGYJOm Yakubu Aiyegbeni LAGOS NOVEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Nigeria international Yakubu Aiyegbeni has announced his retirement from football. The 35-year-old, who spent a decade playing in England for the likes of Portsmouth, Middlesbrough, Everton, Leicester City, Blackburn Rovers and Reading, has been without a club since leaving Coventry City after just three games in April. “I…
http://ift.tt/2iGTnmj Yakubu Aiyegbeni LAGOS NOVEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Nigeria international Yakubu Aiyegbeni has announced his retirement from football. The 35-year-old, who spent a decade playing in England for the likes of Portsmouth, Middlesbrough, Everton, Leicester City, Blackburn Rovers and Reading, has been without a club since leaving Coventry City after just three games in April. “I…
