LAGOS JANUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Yesterday’s visit of All Progressive Comgress Leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Chief Bisi Akamde has no connection with the letter written by former President Olusegun Obasanjo to President Muhammadu. In Obasanjo’s letter, the former President had advised Buhari not contest the 2019 President election sighting health and inability to perform as…
LAGOS JANUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)Former Nigerian leader Olusegun Obasanjo asked President Muhammadu Buhari not to seek re-election next year, saying he has failed in his management of Africa’s most populous country. “I only appeal to brother Buhari to consider a deserved rest at this point in time,” Obasanjo said on Tuesday in an emailed statement. “President…
LAGOS JANUARY 22ND(NEWSRANGERS)-A former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Alhaji Umar Gali Na’Abba, has said President Muhammadu Buhari lacks the physical and intellectual capacity to govern Nigeria. Na’Abba said this when one of our correspondents contacted him to confirm comments attributed to him concerning calls on the President to seek a second term. He…
LAGOS JANUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Nineteen political parties are reportedly discussing a merger deal ahead of the 2019 general elections. This was disclosed by the national chairman of the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), Dr. Onwubuya Breakforth. According to Breakforth, the parties are discussing a merger deal to form a ‘third force’ ahead of the 2019 general…
LAGOS JANUARY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)– Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari said on Thursday he does not know if he will seek re-election in 2019 and the decision is personal and also for Nigerians. Buhari, 75, was speaking in a radio interview. He was elected in 2015 but spent much of 2017 in Britain being treated for an…
By Emmanuel Ogebe LAGOS JANUARY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Long before I arrived in the United States in 1997 on political asylum, I’d heard the apocryphal story of the visiting African who was asked by an American whether it was “true that Africans live on trees?” The well-educated and well-spoken African responded: “Yes, it is true, and the…