LAGOS MAY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Last weekend’s massive mobilisation by Nigerian youths who planned the one million-man march, on Saturday, was the final push Peter Obi, former Governor of Anambra State needed to finally pull out of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Until the event, Obi, who was the candidate of the opposition party for the Vice…
LAGOS APRIL 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Amid declarations from different Southern politicians, some Governors are pushing for a Northerner to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023, POLITICS NIGERIA exclusively gathered. Based on the existing North/South rotation, the All Progressives Congress reportedly zoned the office of the President to the South since the outgoing President is a Northerner. Yemi…
LAGOS JANUARY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Abia State Governor and Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, has said he will be ready to contest the All Progressives Congress(APC) presidential ticket with former Governor of Lagos State, Bola Tinubu, if the party wins the ticket to the South. Speaking in an interview on Tuesday, Kalu…
LAGOS JANUARY 4TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-Governors and other visitors to the Presidential Villa, Abuja, will henceforth, take rapid COVID-19 test to be allowed into the seat of power, the Presidency said in a new regime of protocol it announced yesterday. The regulation will be applied on visitors to President Muhammadu Buhari and any other visitor to the…
LAGOS OCTOBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Atiku Abubakar Out of the race As PDP ‘Zones’ Presidential Ticket to South , Chairmanship Seat To North/ There are strong indications that the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) presidential ticket for 2023 may have been zoned to the Southern region. This comes after the PDP’s leadership reportedly resolved to zone the party’s…
LAGOS JULY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Members of the House of Representatives from the southern part of Nigeria have adopted the resolutions by the Southern Governors’ Forum on the Petroleum Industry Bill, Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill and the rotation of the Presidency in 2023. Chairman of the Southern Caucus, Victor Nwokolo, made this known in a statement issued…
LAGOS JUNE 23RD (NEWSRANNGERS)-The Presidency has washed its hands off the current efforts at the National Assembly to amend the laws establishing the Nigerian Press Council, the National Broadcasting Commission. These are the agencies of government that regulate the print media and broadcast media, respectively in the country. The planned amendments to these laws has…
LAGOS MAY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s army chief, Lieutenant General Ibrahim Attahiru, died in a plane crash on Friday on an official visit to the northern state of Kaduna, which has had security challenges in recent months, the presidency said. The air force said in a statement that its plane crashed near Kaduna airport and that it…