LAGOS JANUARY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A video showing President Muhammadu Buhari slumping during the presidential campaign rally in Lokoja, Kogi State yesterday has gone viral with many commentators raising concerns as regards the president’s fitness for the 2019 political campaigns. Many supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have seized the opportunity of the slip to call…
LAGOS JANUARY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Action Alliance (AA) party, formed by the Imo state governor, Rochas Okorocha, in 2005 has said that it would throw its support, not for Buhari but behind the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, for the coming election. Governor Okorocha formed the AA in 2005 after he…
LAGOS JANUARY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The presidency has shortlisted an Assistant Inspector General of Police from Nasarawa State as a possible replacement of the retiring Inspector-General of Police Ibrahim Idris. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Idris, who clocks 60 years on Jan. 15 paid “a bye-bye visit’’ to President Buhari on Monday at the…
LAGOS JANUARY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Governors elected under the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC), were on Thursday absent at the inaugural meeting of the Presidential Campaign Council. The meeting which was presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari, held at the Banquet hall, Presidential Villa, Abuja. In his opening address, President Buhari said the meeting was…
LAGOS JANUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari, Wednesday appointed Bismarck Rewane as head of newly inaugurated Technical Advisory Committee on the implementation of a National Minimum Wage. President Buhari at the inauguration which took place at the Council Chamber, Presidential Villa Abuja, said that after the new minimum wage has been passed into law, government will…
LAGOS JANUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has denied insinuations that he asked the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to stop the probe of a former Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Senator Godswill Akpabio, after the latter joined the All Progressives Congress last year. Buhari said this during an interview aired on Arise TV which was…
LAGOS JANUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)President Buhari also noted that the operational buck of the campaign stops at Asiwaju Tinubu’s table, urging all those in the leadership of the campaign, in the field operations on the campaign trail and in the secretariat to consult with Asiwaju whenever guidance was needed. The President said the campaigns must be…
LAGOS JANUARY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, has said the declaration by President Muhammadu Buhari making the national leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu, leader of his campaign team is deceitful. The spokesperson for the group, Yinka Odumakin, said the President should not use that as an excuse to avoid the Presidential…