LAGOS FEBRUARY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu, has declared that the 31 applications for new state creation in Nigeria are invalid because they do not meet the constitutional requirements. Kalu made this known during an interview with TVC News, where he explained that none of the proposals had fulfilled the…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Secretariat of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) is to honour a few media personalities in the maiden edition of its “Milestone Recognition of Media Icons” initiative. The Union in a statement said unlike other awards, the Milestone Recognition of Media Icons, being organised in conjunction with the Lagos…
LAGOS OCTOBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A former governor of Osun State, Rauf Aregbesola, has been dropped from the Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Also dropped are a former governor of Enugu State, Chimaroke Nnamani, and that of Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu, as well as Kassim Afegbua, a former commissioner for…
LAGOS DECEMBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The House of Representatives on Sunday rejected one of its members’ call for impeachment processes to commence against President Muhammadu Buhari. Hon. Kingsley Chinda, representing Obio/Akpor Federal Constituency in Rivers State at the House of Representatives had earlier on Sunday, in a press release, called on Nigerians irrespective of political party, tribe,…
LAGOS APRIL 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State will, on Thursday, April 18 speak on challenges facing Nigeria’s economy and the way out at the second annual lecture of Freedom Online, an online newspaper. Fayemi, sworn-in for a second term as governor of the Fountain of Knowledge in October 2018, will speak on the…
LAGOS DECEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Several high-profile figures in Nigeria, including a former government minister, have claimed that President Muhammadu Buhari has died and been replaced by a lookalike from Sudan. Tweets, Facebook posts and YouTube videos repeating claims that the leader of Africa’s most populous nation is an imposter called “Jubril” have been shared and viewed…