LAGOS AUGUST 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) has debunked media report of recognition of Senators Ahmed Lawan and Godswill Akpabio as Senatorial candidates of their different parties in 2023 general election. The Commission in a press statement signed by National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye Esq. sighted by NewsRangers confirmed…
LAGOS MAY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Orji Kalu, chief whip of the senate, has withdrawn from the 2023 presidential race. Kalu, who has been advocating for a south-easterner to become the next president, had in January announced he would contest the 2023 election if the ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC) is zoned to the south. However, in…
LAGOS MAY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Some students sponsored to Europr for postgraduate studies by the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) are reportedly stranded abroad because of the alleged lack of funding from the commission. The students this month sent a letter to the President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, complaining that life for them abroad has been…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The senator representing Kogi West, Dino Melaye has called the Senate President, Ahmed Lawan to send all ‘analogue’ senators to computer schools as he canvassed for digitalization of the senate. Melaye made the call while speaking on the 9th Senate Legislative agenda on Thursday, September 26. “We must also visualize this chamber….
LAGOS JUNE 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Majority of Nigerian senators yesterday voted against a motion to debate President Muhammadu Buhari’s Democracy Day speech in plenary. The motion to scrutinise the speech was moved by Istifanus Gyang, Plateau, PDP. Coming under Order 52 of the Senate standing order, Gyang asked his colleagues, through the Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, to…
LAGOS JUNE 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-One of the major contenders for the position of the Senate President in the incoming Ninth National Assembly, Senator Ali Ndume, has reiterated his resolve to contest on the floor of the Senate on June 11. Ndume who stated this in an interview with journalists on Thursday also said he had no…