LAGOS MAY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Trouble is brewing in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, over the composition of the Presidential Primary Election Committee. Vanguard gathered that Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has registered his displeasure with the Senator Iyorchia Ayu-led National Working Committee, NWC, for allegedly denying Rivers State a slot in the panel. A source familiar…
LAGOS MAY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former President Goodluck Jonathan last night “rejected” the expression of interest and nomination forms bought for him to contest the presidential primary of the All Progressives Congress (APC). The purported rejection was announced by his media office hours after a group called Nomadic Pastoralists and the Almajiri Communities led by one Ibrahim…
LAGOS MAY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Peter Obi is an Igbo man and proudly so. He is not telling us to make him president because he is an Igbo man. He is going about articulating a clear vision and strategy that will change the sordid narrative of this country. That is how it should be! While not denying…
LAGOS MAY 5TH ( NEWSRANGERS)-Former Governor Peter Obi has congratulated a Nigerian Archbishop, His Grace Jude Thaddeus Okolo, on his recent appointment as the apostolic nuncio to the Czech Republic by Pope Francis. Speaking through his Media Office on Wednesday, Obi described the appointment as a recognition of Archbishop Okolo’s hard work, commitment and dedication…
LAGOS APRIL 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has written to the Chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Senator Abdullahi Adamu, requesting that officials of the agency be given access to conduct drugs integrity tests for politicians seeking political offices in the country. The NDLEA Chairman, Brig-Gen Buba Marwa (Retd) said this…
LAGOS APRIL 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A Federal High Court in Abuja, on Friday, ordered former Speaker, House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, to vacate his seat as a member representing Dass, Tafawa Balewa and Bogoro Federal Constituency of Bauchi State. Delivering judgment, Justice Donatus Okorowo, declared that having defected from Peoples Democratic Party to All Progressives Congress,…
LAGOS APRIL 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Ahmed Babba Kaita, the senator representing Katsina North Senatorial District, the senatorial zone of President Muhammadu Buhari, has officially announced his exit from the ruling All Progressives Congress APC. Mr Babba-Kaita announced on Wednesday that he was joining the opposition People’s Democratic Party The defection brought an end to speculations, on local…
LAGOS APRIL 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Governor of Zamfara State, Abdulaziz Yari, Sen. Kabiru Marafa and Bauchi State House of Assembly Speaker, Abubakar Sulaiman, have dumped the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) for the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Marafa represented Zamfara Central in the 7th and 8th Senate from 2011 to 2019. Chairman of Zamfara PDP,…