LAGOS FEBRUARY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, in the 2023 election, Peter Obi, has reacted after former Military President of Nigeria, Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida (rtd), admitted the late Chief MKO Abiola was the winner of the June 12, 1993 election. IBB made the admission during the launch of his autobiography, ‘A…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former military president, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (rtd), has defended the annulment of the June 12, 1993, presidential election, stating that the decision was made in the supreme national interest to ensure Nigeria’s survival. Speaking on Thursday at the launch of his autobiography, A Journey in Service, and the unveiling of his…
LAGOS OCTOBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Professor Humphrey Nwosu, the chairman of the National Electoral Commission (NEC), now known as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), from 1989 to 1993 has been confirmed dead. Nwosu, born on October 2, 1941, breathed his last in a Virginia hospital in the United States.As the chief electoral officer, Nwosu conducted…
LAGOS JUNE 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Four Nigerian teenagers, irked by the illegal and unjust annulment of the June 12, 1993 general election by the Ibrahim Babangida administration, hijacked a Nigeria Airways aircraft flying from Lagos to Abuja and diverted it to Niamey, Niger Republic. The incident took place on a Monday, October 25, 1993, at a time…
LAGOS JUNE 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Family of the acclaimed winner of June 12, 1993, Presidential election, late Chief MKO Abiola, on Saturday decried that the Federal Government has not fulfilled promises made to the family. The family’s secretary, Rahaman Abiola, made this known in an interview with journalists when a delegation of the Ogun State government, led…
LAGOS APRIL 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The former senator, who represented Kaduna Central at the Eighth Senate, Shehu Sani, has warned Asiwaju Bola Tinubu to be careful in his dealings with northerners, especially their elite, saying that most of them are hypocrites that would pull him down in his presidential ambition. Sani, while shedding light on his recent…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Police in Lagos have given an insight into how the wife of late business mogul, Chief M K.O. Abiola, Adebisi lost a whopping sum of over N603m to armed robbers in her Ikeja home recently. P.M.EXPRESS reports following the arraignment of four suspects allegedly involved in the robbery operation which took…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen on Wednesday invaded the house of the late Chief Moshood Abiola in Ike, Lagos State and stole property worth millions of naira. A source confirmed the development to The PUNCH. “Armed robbers invaded the house of the late MKO Abiola in the Opebi area of Ikeja. They carted away a lot…
