LAGOS NOVEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Donald Trump would be wiser to acknowledge losing the U.S. presidential election and quit, Czech President Milos Zeman, an early Trump supporter, said on Thursday. Zeman, one of the few European politicians who backed Trump before his 2016 election victory but who made no such endorsement this year, told news website www.parlamentnilisty.cz…
LAGOS MAY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian football star could be heading back to China after both Shanghai Shenhua and Manchester United failed to reach an agreement over his loan extension. The 30-year-old’s initial temporary stay at Old Trafford expires at the end of this month but the Red Devils want to keep the striker until the season…
LAGOS MARCH 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Many policemen resident in Traffic Training School Barracks, Ikeja, Lagos, say they are on the verge of being homeless following an order, directing them to vacate the barracks on Tuesday, March 31. A notice to quit memo dated February 24, 2020 issued to the occupants by the Force Provost Marshal and signed…
LAGOS JULY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari told Fulani herders in the Southern parts of the country not to obey the quit order issued to them by the Northern Elders’ Forum (NEF). A statement issued on behalf of the President by the Senior Special Assistant, Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, in Abuja, on Tuesday, quoted the…
LAGOS MARCH 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former governor of Ogun state, Gbenga Daniel, has quit artisan politics, resigning his membership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Daniel announced this in a letter to the national chairman of the PDP, Uche Secondus. In the letter, Daniel, who was the campaign coordinators of Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A group of Niger Delta agitators have asked multinational oil companies out of Akwa Ibom State or risk being attacked. The group, under the aegis of Coalition of Niger Delta Agitators, said its decision was based on dissatisfaction with the companies over their neglect of riverine communities in Akwa Ibom. In a…
LAGOS OCTOBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Senator representing Kaduna Central in the Senate, Shehu Sani, has dumped the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Sani, who has been having a running battle with Governor Nasir El-Rufa’I, announced his exit from the APC in a letter addressed to the Chairman of party in Kaduna State. His defection from the…
LAGOS AUGUST 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki Tuesday announced via Twitter his long speculated defection from the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. Saraki however did not name his next political party even though speculations are rife that he is bound for the main opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. “I wish to inform Nigerians…