LAGOS FEBRUARY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Despite public outrage in Nigeria, Ghana Immigration (GI) officials have intensified their raid of neighbourhoods with high concentration of Nigerians in the hope of weeding out persons without residence permit and repatriating same to Nigeria. No fewer than 723 Nigerians had been deported from Ghana since January 2018 to date in a…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, has dismissed as untrue a rumour that he has fled the country in order not to participate in casting his vote during Tomorrow’s general elections. Obasanjo, who was reacting to a social media story, written by one Gbenga Lawal on his Facebook page, at Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former American President Bill Clinton has canceled his trip to Nigeria ahead of Saturday’s general elections, saying the visit could be “politicised,” CNN has reported. The PUNCH had reported that the 42nd President of the United States of America and Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, Baroness Patricia Scotland, had been named dignitaries for…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria polie has began hunt for two men who stripped and rob pepper in a girls private for allegedly stealing a telephone handset. The Force Public Relations Officer (FPPRO), Frank Mba, revealed that investigation into the incident had already commenced. He demands more information from members of the public. Outrage has…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The vice-presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party for the February 16 poll, Mr Peter Obi, has said Nigeria will collapse if Buhari is reelected. Obi stated this during a roadshow by the PDP in Awka, Anambra State, on Tuesday to seek support for its presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar ahead of the…
LAGOS JANUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian government has reacted to the position of both the United States of America and her United Kingdom counterpart on the suspension of the country’s Chief Justice, Walter Onnoghen. A statement by Garba Shehu, the senior special assistant on media and publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari, said as much as Nigeria…
LAGOS JANUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Apex Igbo social cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has endorsed the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and his Vice President, Mr Peter Obi as its Presidential candidate in 2019 election . Both of them were endorsed on Thursday during a meeting of Imeobi, the highest decision….
LAGOS JANUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Wife of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)’s Presidential candidate, Mrs Titi Atiku Abubakar, on Wednesday, said her husband Atiku Abubakar, would liberate Nigeria from what she termed “bondage” if elected in the February 16 election. Mrs Abubakar spoke at a Town Hall meeting she held with stakeholders in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital,…