LAGOS MAY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 election, Peter Obi has said the biggest problem of Nigeria’s democracy is the judiciary and not the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. Obi stated this at the fifth memorial of late Justice Anthony Aniagolu at the Godfrey Okoye University, Enugu. According to…
LAGOS JULY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-According to a report by Thisday Live, President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu told the election tribunal that nullfying election on account of 25% FCT votes could lead to chaos and anarchy. Following this, former Lagos Gubernatorial candidate, Babatunde Gbadamosi took to his social media handles to react. While reacting, Gbadamosi emphasized that…
LAGOS MAY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Anglican Bishop of the Diocese of Ibadan, Rt. Revd. Dr. J.O Akinfenwa, has charged Nigeria’s judiciary, especially those handling various election tribunal cases, to be fair to themselves, to Nigerians and to justice, by endeavoring to do the right things and ensure that justice was delivered to the country. He was…
LAGOS APRIL 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A former President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Mr. Olisa Agbakoba, (SAN), has expressed his waning confidence in the Nigerian courts. Agbakoba blamed his discouragement on the recent judgments coming out of the courts, which according to him are baffling and unexpected from justices at that level. The senior lawyer who spoke as…
LAGOS MARCH 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A good governance group, Govindex Leadership, Empowerment and Development Foundation, has come down hard on President Muhammadu Buhari, accusing him of contempt by attempting to teleguide and intimidate the Judiciary with regard to the on-going litigation over the controversial February 25 Presidential election. Govindex in a statement issued on Wednesday slammed the…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Peter Obi Support Network (POSN) has applauded the judiciary for Tuesday’s ruling mandating the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to immediately resume the continuous voters registration exercise and allow it to run until 90 days before the 2023 general elections. The group in a statement released after the judgement of the…
LAGOS JUNE 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party and Patron of Professionals in PDP, Plateau State, Nde Isaac Wadak said democracy in Nigeria has collapsed under the nose of President Muhammadu Buhari. Wadak, who is a financial expert and former Permanent Secretary, Plateau State disclosed this on Friday during an interaction with Journalists…
LAGOS JUNE 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has pulled the brake on the process of gazetting Executive Order 10 (EO10) following the concerns raised by the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF). The decision is to give enough time for the resolution of the issues raised by the governors. Ekiti State Governor Kayode Fayemi, who doubles as NGF…