LAGOS JUY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Supreme Court on Tuesday adjourned hearing until August 20, in an application filed by the Peoples Democratic Party, and its candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, challenging the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal’s rejection of their request to access the Independent National Electoral Commission’s “central server”. NAN reports that the PDP and Abubakar alleged…
LAGOS JULY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday in Monrovia, Liberia received the country’s highest award and expressed his resolve to continue to strengthen cooperation within the West African sub region. Malam Garba Shehu, the President’s spokesman, who confirmed this development in a statement in Abuja, said Buhari was honoured during the 172nd independence anniversary…
LAGOS JULY 24TH (NEWSRANGRS)-Protests have rocked India, Canada and United Kingdom over the unlawful detention of Sheik Ibrahim El-Zakzaky. In Kashmir, India, children and youths embarked on street demonstration, calling for the release of the Shiite leader. “A protest rally was held today morning (Sunday) in Indian-Controlled Kashmir in solidarity with Sheikh #El-Zakzaky,” the Islamic…
LAGOS JULY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, yesterday said it had become obvious that the problems confronting Nigeria were beyond President Muhammadu Buhari. Soyinka spoke when he played host to some students who paid him a visit on his 85th birthday. The literary icon said while state governments differ in failure rates, “central government…
LAGOS JULY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerians on social media have reacted to the latest open letter written by former President Olusegun Obasanjo to President Muhammadu Buhari. While some praised the former President for speaking up, others pick holes in his statement. Obasanjo through his media aide, Kehinde Akinyemi, had on Monday released a letter that forewarned Muhammadu…
Dear President and General Buhari, I am constrained to write to you this open letter. I decided to make it an open letter because the issue is very weighty and must be greatly worrisome to all concerned Nigerians and that means all right-thinking Nigerians and those resident in Nigeria. Since the issue is of momentous…
LAGOS JULY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Court of Appeal has dismissed a suit challenging the qualification of President Muhammadu Buhari to contest the 2019 general election. A three-man panel led by Justice Atinuke Akomolafe-Wilson threw out the suit on Friday for being incompetent. The court agreed with counsel to the President and the All Progressive Congress (APC)…
LAGOS JULY 12TH (NEWSANGERS)-A cross-section of Nigerians have reacted to the image of a herder and his cattle on Nigeria’s new passport. The new passport which was posted online by Apostle Suleman had an inscription of a herder and his cattle on it. This has since generated reactions from Nigerians online as they called out…