LAGOS JULY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-As the Presidential Election Petitions Court reconvenes on Monday (July 3), the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has lined up witnesses to defend the election victory of President Bola Tinubu and one of them is Dr. Lawrence Bayode, Deputy Director in the ICT Department of the electoral umpire, THE WHISTLER reports. The…
LAGOS MAY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Many prominent Nigerian leaders yesterday bid farewell to Pa Abraham Joseph Michael Diri, father of the Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, at Sampou community in Kolokuma/Opokuma Local Government Area of the state. The dignitaries include former Presidents Olusegun Obasanjo and Goodluck Jonathan; Jonathan’s wife, Dame Patience; Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, and…
LAGOS APRIL 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The journalist who published the alleged phone conversation between the Labour Party’s (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi, and the General Overseer of the Living Faith Church, Bishop David Oyedepo, has been suspended. Peoples Gazette suspended Ayoola Babalola on Tuesday for online behavior that violated the newspaper’s social media policy and called…
LAGOS MARCH 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-After an intense political subterfuge and disputation that followed the declaration of the results of the Presidential and National Assembly elections held on February 25, all is now set for the anticipated legal fireworks between the President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the candidates of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji…
LAGOS MARCH 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Femi Falana, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria has said that it is not mandatory for a presidential candidate to win the Federal Capital Territory to be declared the winner of the election. Currently, Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress and Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party are leading the race…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Presidential candidates of the ruling All Progressives Congress; main opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP; and Labour Party, were locked in a tight race, last night as results of the February 25 elections trickled in yesterday. So far, results from 14 states have been declared by the National Chairman of the Independent…