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…
LAGOS MAY 2ND(NEWSRANGERS)-A Minister of State in Ghana, Rockson Bukari has resigned his position after he was caught on tape attempting to bribe a journalist. The Minister was trying to stop the journalist from publishing damaging reports involving a mining company. Ghana President, Nana Akufo-Addo, has since accepted the Minister’s resignation and wished him well….
LAGOS APRIL 2ND(NEWSRANGERS)-Algerian President Bouteflika has resigned, bowing to mass protest, Algeria’s state news agency APS reported on Monday. He will give up his office before his designated end-of-term date on April 28. The decision came after hundreds of people demonstrated in Algiers against Bouteflika’s new government. Protesters carried slogans describing the new cabinet as…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Senate President Bukola Saraki has asked Adams Oshiomhole, national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), to quit politics. Saraki made the statement in Ilorin on Wednesday, on the sidelines of a remembrance ceremony held in honour of his late father. On Sunday, the Department of State Services (DSS) had detained Oshiomhole…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A senior aide of Kemi Adeosun reportedly claimed the minister has not resigned her appointment. The minister was allegedly at her office and her aides performing their normal duties after the unconfirmed report of her resignation broke The aide, who spoke to the press, said the news of her resignation was an…
