LAGOS SEPTEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Few months to 2019 general elections and less than four weeks to the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) presidential primaries, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has petitioned President Muhammadu Buhari over alleged threats to his life and those of his family members. The petition to the president, which was also copied the PDP…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Southern and Middle Belt leaders on Thursday said President Muhammadu Buhari has passed a vote of no confidence in ‘One Nigeria’ with the appointment of a new Department of State Services (DSS) Director General. President Buhari on Thursday replaced Matthew Seiyefa, the Acting Director-General of DSS, with Yusuf Magaji Bichi. The leaders…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nura Ilyasu, the man who climbed a telecommunications mast in Abuja on Wednesday to protest the re-election bid of President Muhammadu Buhari, has finally descended. He came down from the mast on Thursday. Ilyasu touched ground at 11:25am voluntarily, after security operatives acceded to his request that he must address the press…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former National Commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Lai Olurode has said that President Muhammadu Buhari should have rejected the N45m approved by the All Progressives Congress (APC) as cost of presidential nomination form. He said the form is not only costly but has shut out other aspirants…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 6TH(NEWSRANGERS)-A pro- Niger Delta group, the Niger Delta Oil Communities Agenda, NIDOCA, has advised persons being sponsored to smear the image and reputation of Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr Ibe Kachikwu, over non existing case of corruption to desist forthwith. The NIDOCA, in a statement issued by Comrade Emmanuel Akpovoka, Secretary…
– LAGOS SEPTEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Some Nigerians have taken to Twitter to express their different views following the Presidency’s announcement on Wednesday that “a group of good Nigerians” purchased N45 million worth presidential nomination forms for President Muhammadu Buhari while he was away in China. President Buhari’s Special Assistant on New Media, Bashir Ahmad, tweeted photos…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGRS)-Supporters of President Muhammadu Buhari have paid for and obtained the expression of interest and nomination forms valued at N45.5m for the president. Members of the group under the aegis of Nigeria Consolidation Ambassador Network were received by the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole, at the party’s national…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari stunned participants at the opening ceremony of the 2018 Annual General Conference of the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) last Sunday in Abuja when he said the rule of law must be subject to the supremacy of the nation’s security and national interest. Buhari, at the conference, declared that where…