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,…
LAGOS JANUARY 24TH (NEWRANGERS)-The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, has revealed that the N198 billion budgetary allocation for the funding of the forthcoming general election, has been released to the commission. The electoral body has also stated that the results of the February 16 presidential election will be transmitted…
LAGOS JANUARY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The United States has warned of an increased threat by Book Haram to carry out terrorist attacks in Nigeria especially as the general elections approach. In a Security Alert issued on Friday, Jan. 18, via its website, in Nigeria, the US noted that “there is an increase in ISIS propaganda videos specifically…
LAGOS JANUARY 16TH (NEWRANGERS)-Vice-Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Peter Obi, has decried what he tagged “Intimidation of the Judiciary”, and asking: “Where is Due Process?” Recalling that he was a major beneficiary of the rule of law/due process, he asserted that when that critical essence of democracy is under siege or…
LAGOS JANUARY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Speaking at the unilag town hall meeting yesterday, presidential aspirant for the AAC party, Omoyele Sowore said “What I propose is to put aside $3.6 billion and we’ll turn this country into a construction site. “We’re in need of 17 million homes, over 80 million Nigerians are without homes. We need to…
LAGOS JANUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The United Nations says Nigeria lost an estimated 2.8 billion dollars in revenues in 2018, mainly due to oil-related crimes. This is according to a new ‘Report by the Secretary-General on the activities of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS)’ on Monday in New York. The report,…