By Amos Okioma LAGOS JUY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ijaw Youths under the auspices of Defender of Izon Nation (DIN) on Sunday urged the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to jettison the idea of using Gov Nyisom Wike to conduct Bayelsa guber primaries. The DIN, an Ijaw pressure group comprising militants and non militants known in the creeks as…
LAGOS JULY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon (retd) on Wednesday called for the expansion of National Youth Service Corps scheme beyond the shores of Nigeria. He said the time has come for the NYSC programme to be expanded to other African Union countries. Gowon made the all in an address delivered on…
LAGOS JULY 5TH (NEWRANGERS)-Professor Ben Nwabueze (SAN), a renowned constitutional lawyer and former education minister, has emerged as the lead counsel for Alhaji Atiku Abubakar as the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal begins to call out witnesses in the PDP candidate’s suit challenging President Muhammadu Buhari’s victory in the February 23 presidential election. Atiku had filed…
LAGOS JULY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Respondents to the petition filed by the Peoples Democratic Party and its presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, have called for the “suspension” of proceedings of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, on Thursday (today). Thursday was scheduled for the commencement of trial, when the petitioners challenging President Muhammadu Buhari’s victory at the February…
LAGOS JULY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal has fixed July the 3rd, to deliver ruling on an application filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, seeking to set aside the proceedings of June 11th, 2019. Chairman of the tribunal, Justice Mohammed Garba said the ruling will determine the…
LAGOS JULY 1ST (NEWRANGRS)-The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC Kano zonal office on Friday, June 28, 2019 secured the conviction of a Deputy Director of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Auwal Jibrin, and one Garba Ismaila, before Justice Yusuf Birnin-Kudu of the Jigawa State High Court sitting in Gumel, on a six-count charge…
LAGOS JUNE 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal, on Thursday, struck out an application filed by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and President Muhammadu Buhari, seeking a dismissal of the petition filed by the Peoples Democratic Movement (PDM). PDM’s candidate, Aminchi Habu, and his party are challenging their exclusion from the February 23 presidential…
LAGOS JUNE 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on Tuesday, informed the National Assembly Elections Petition Tribunal, sitting in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, that the figures being bandied by the APC in the Akwa Ibom North-west Senatorial district election, Senator Godswill Akpabio were fake. Akpabio, a petitioner who is challenging the victory of Senator…
