LAGOS MARCH 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The All Progressive Congress (APC) has won all the 18 chairmanship seats in the March 3 local government election in Edo. The Chairman of the Edo State Independent Electoral Commission (EDSIEC), Prof. Stanley Orobator, announced the results of the council polls in Benin on Sunday. Orobator said the exercise was rancor-free and…
LAGOS MARCH 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The crisis rocking the former ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is yet to abate as three former ministers are leading an exodus of top members of the party after efforts to heal the wounds of the last national convention of the party hit the rocks. The Nation reports that the ex-information minister…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-If the political gist making the rounds in Bayelsa state is anything to go by, then it is assumed that former president Goodluck Jonathan is behind the decamping of former members of All Progressive Congress, APC, to the PDP in Bayelsa state. Political analysts in Yenagoa stated that Dr, Jonathan is desperate…
LAGOS FEBRURY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Peoples Democratic Party says the counsel by the All Progressives Congress National leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, that former President Olusegun Obasanjo and military dictator, Gen Ibrahim Babangida (retd.) should quit politics and join the retiree’s club, best suits President Muhammadu Buhari. The party said Tinubu’s stance completely vindicates the position of…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former spokesperson of the Peoples Democratic Party, Olisa Metuh, arrived the Federal High Court, Abuja, venue of his ongoing corruption trial on a stretcher after being taken down from an ambulance. .Metuh’s lawyer had, at the last adjourned date, informed the court presided by Justice Okon Abang that his client was at…
By Jerome-Mario Utomi LAGOS FEBRUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Truth, in the words of Thomas Aquinas, is the agreement of what is in the mind with what is on the lips. Considering this remark in relation to the truth as told by the former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo in his memo to President Buhari, and the ripple reactions…
LAGOS JANUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Governors, lawmakers and political leaders from both the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), met on Tuesday to continue discussions on the formation of a new political party. ThisDay reports that the move to form another major party was in a bid to wrestle power from the APC…
LAGOS JANUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Reactions have continued to trail the special statement issued by former President Olusegun Obasanjo advising President Buhari to heed the clarion call and bow out in 2019. In the special statement trending on social media, Obasanjo cited President Buhari’s impaired health, age, nepotism and the poor handling of the country’s economy as…