LAGOS FEBRUARY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Engr. Bashir I. Bashir, who was said to have dropped his governorship ambition on the platform of Labour Party and defected to the All Progressives Congress, APC, never belonged to the party, the State Chairman, Alhaji Muhammadu Abdullahi Raji has said. “In fact he has never at any time been on…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A journalist with an online news platform, Swift Reporters, Adewole Kehinde, last Saturday sued the Independent National Electoral Commission over the denial of access to his voter card. Printouts and text messages exchanged with the commission’s official sighted by our correspondent show that Kehinde, a publisher with the news agency, transferred his…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Police Command in Enugu State has said it has arrested the woman in a trending video allegedly extorting money before issuing Permanent Voter Cards to their owners. This was contained in a statement by the command Public Relations Officer, DSP Daniel Ndukwe, on Thursday in Enugu. “Police detectives serving in the…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos State Parks Management Committee led by Musiliu Akinsanya, popularly known as MC Oluomo has written to the electoral body, the Independent National Electoral Commission to allow his members to distribute sensitive electoral materials and transport election officials on Election Day. This appeal is stated in a letter the union wrote…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar has warned the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) not to use Lagos State Parks Management Committee led by Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo to distribute election materials. National Chairman of INEC, Prof. Mahmoud Yakubu, had on Tuesday held…
LAGOS JANUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to accept the nomination of candidates of the Labour Party (LP) in 24 States of the federation for the purpose of the 2023 general elections. The court ordered that the electoral body must accept the list of…
LAGOS JANUARY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Following the Osun Governorship Election Tribunal judgement, a leading Civil Society organisation, the Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA Resource Centre) has charged the Independent National Electoral Election (INEC) to be circumspect and thorough with regards to all aspects of its responsibilities in view of their ultra-sensitivity. HEDA specifically wants INEC to…
LAGOS JNAUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Osun State Elections Petitions Tribunal has nullified the election of Ademola Adeleke of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and declared Gboyega Oyetola, governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the July 16, 2022 election as the winner of the election. In August 2022, Oyetola, a former Osun governor, and the…