LAGOS AUGUST 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At least seven members of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the main opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have resigned from their posts effective immediately. The party’s National Organising Secretary, Colonel Austin Akobundu (retd), who confirmed the development, said those who resigned from their posts are deputy members of the party’s…
LAGOS JUNE 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, has expressed concern over the resignation of 105 doctors in the service of Ondo in the last year. Its State Chairman, Dr. Stella Adegbehingbe and State Secretary, Dr. Olorunfemi Owa in a statement released in Akure blamed the trend on irregular and percentage payment of salaries by…
LAGOS MARCH 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Chairman of EFCC (Economic and Financial Crimes Commission), Abdulrasheed Bawa, has threatened to resign from the position, if he is asked to compromise. Bawa said this when he featured in a NTA interview programme One-on-One on Friday. His words were posted in a statement on the EFCC’s official Twitter handle. Bawa…
LAGOS JANUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has fired the heads of the country’s armed forces whom he appointed when he first took office in 2015. In a surprise move, he also tweeted the names of their replacements. No reason was given for the resignations of the army, navy, air force and chief of defence…
LAGOS JUNE 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Vice President for Agriculture, the Human and Social Development at the African Development Bank (AfDB), Dr. Jennifer Blanke, has resigned her position. The bank’s Communications and External Relations Department made this known in a statement yesterday, saying Blanke’s resignation would take effect July 4, 2020. She was quoted as saying: “I…
LAGOS MARCH 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Mr Cipriano Cassamá, one of the two men who had been declared president of Guinea Bissau resigned his office on Sunday-after just one full day in office. He said “I have no security, my life is in danger, the life of my family is in danger, the life of this people is…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The governors elected on the platform of the All Progressives Governors Forum have asked the National Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, to convene a National Executive Council meeting or resign. The governors said the inability of the chairman to call for superior organs of the party to a meeting was causing increasing organisational challenges…
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent National Electoral Commission has refuted claims that its Director of Information and Communication Technology, Mr Chidi Nwafor, has resigned. The commission made the clarification in a notice on its official Twitter handle @inecnigeria, on Saturday. It described the rumour as false, urging members of the public to disregard it. “The…