LAGOS MAY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As the race to 2023 general elections intensifies with so many politicking across the divide, the Human & Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA Resource Centre) has commended the president for directing political appointees with aspirations to resign from political appointment to pursue their ambitions and charged those who are yet to tender their…
LAGOS MAY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has directed that any cabinet ministers seeking to run in next year’s elections should resign before May 16, the minister of information said on Wednesday. Under the electoral law that was amended in February, no political appointees are allowed to contest party primaries or vote during such primaries….
LAGOS OCTOBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The November 6, 2021 Anambra state Governorship election may have run into serious hitch, as a huge number of adhoc Staff recruited for the exercise have resigned due to fear of attacks by members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). The Pro Biafran group, had last weekend, issued a statement…
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…