LAGOS OCTOBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA Resource Centre) has taken a decisive step by formally petitioning the Nigeria Police Force against Max Air, citing grave concerns over the endangerment of lives due to reported safety violations. This move comes in the wake of Max Air’s purported presentation of altered records to…
LAGOS MAY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Labour Party (LP) and its presidential candidate, Peter Obi have been given three weeks’ ultimatum to present their petitions against the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal sitting at the Court of Appeal in Abuja. The Presidential Tribunal made this known on Tuesday in a declaration made…
LAGOS APRIL 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Labour Party (LP) has called on all election petition tribunals to disregard letters by its suspended National Legal Adviser, Samuel Akingbade, withdrawing all the party’s petitions. The party’s Acting National Publicity Secretary, Obiora Ifoh, stated on Tuesday in Abuja that the presidential election petition tribunal in particular should dismiss the letter. He…
LAGOS APRIL 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Broadcasting Organisations of Nigeria (BON) has requested the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, to call the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) to order as it continues to display flagrant violation of the Nigerian Broadcasting Code. Executive Secretary of BON, Dr Yemisi Bamigbose, also expressed his worry about the declining…
LAGOS MARCH 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The camp of the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has disclosed that they were officially served on Tuesday with copies of the petitions filed at the election tribunal by Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi and his counterpart in the Peoples Democratic Party, Atiku Abubakar. The development is coming one week after Obi…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Over 12,000 Nigerians and largely Lagosians, have signed a petition for the removal of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Commissioner for Lagos State, Mr. Olusegun Agbaje for alleged incompetence and bigotry, reports ITREALMS. As at the time of filing this report, barely 48 hours after the commencement of the petition, ITREALMS gathered that…
LAGOS AUGUST 19TH (NEWSANGERS)-The lawmaker representing Ovia Federal Constituency of Edo State in the House of Representatives, Mr Dennis Idahosa, has petitioned the Comptroller General of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), over alleged extortion and harassment of motorists and other road users by NCS officers at Ekiadolor, along the Benin-Ore-Lagos highway, Ovia North East Local…
LAGOS JULY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has asked Mohammed Adamu, inspector-general of police (IGP), to investigate the allegation that he collected N4 billion from Ibrahim Magu, suspended acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). In a petition dated July 8 and addressed to Adamu, the vice-president through Taiwo Osipitan, his lawyer, said…