LAGOS FEBRUARY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Police, on Thursday morning, barricaded the entrance to the Rivers State headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in Port Harcourt following a protest by some members of the All Progressives Congress, APC in the state who threatened that there would be no election unless INEC allows the party to…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Supreme Court has finally shattered the ambition of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to present candidates for the forthcoming elections in Rivers State. The Apex Court on Tuesday struck out an appeal filed by the party challenging the judgment of a High Court in Rivers State which barred it from conducting…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Troops of the Nigerian Army participating in Exercise Python Dance III have killed a suspected kidnapper and rescued four civilians in Ukpelede community in the Ahoada West Local Government Area of Rivers State. Our correspondent learnt that the troops, attached to 29 Battalion and 6 Division Area on Thursday, encountered a gang…
LAGOS JANUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Senator representing Rivers South-East Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Magnus Ngei Abe has described the ruling of the Supreme Court in favour of Ibrahim Umar and other APC chieftains, who were aggrieved by their exclusion during the Party Congresses in Rivers State as a stunning victory for Democracy, Justice and…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There is no reprieve for the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has insisted that it has not reversed its decision that the party has no candidates in the impending general election in the state. INEC’s declaration coincided with another decision Wednesday by the…
Court Of Appeal Stays Execution On Judgment Excluding Rivers APC From General Elections LAGOS FEBRUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Court of Appeal sitting in Port Harcourt on Monday granted a stay of execution of the Federal High Court judgement nullifying all primaries of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State. Apart from nullifying the primaries, Justice…
LAGOS DECEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Achibong Patrick, 36, a native of Akwa-Ibom and a father of four, has strangled all his children to death. Patrick also hanged himself to death and set ablaze his home in Alesa, Eleme Local Government of Rivers State The motive behind the horror incident is yet unknown but neighbours woke up on…
LAGOS DECEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The police in Rivers State have arrested a young man, Mr. Prince Owabie, popularly called J-boy, for allegedly killing and burying his pregnant girlfriend in his room. The Guardian gathered that the victim, Miss Betha Ogbede, was murdered and buried in her lover’s one-room apartment in Rumuepirikom community of Obio/Akpor Local Government…
