LAGOS MAY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former senator representing Kaduna Central, Shehu Sani, has berated the Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, for declaring a public holiday and shutting down businesses in the state over the visit of the president-elect, Bola Tinubu. Sani lambasted Wike, saying the governor’s action was a sign of “desperation for favours.” Wike had,…
LAGOS APRIL 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen have killed two aides and kidnapped their boss, who is a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The kidnappers also shot three of the police escorts attached to the senior lawyer. It was gathered that the policemen, who sustained various degrees of injuries in the attack, have…
LAGOS APRIL 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Voting has been disrupted at Ward 4, Polling Unit 5 of Sogho in the Khana Local Government Area of Rivers state. Initially, voting was going on smoothly but there was a disagreement between the party agents of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). While the cause of…
LAGOS MARCH 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Campaign Director General of Tonye Cole, All Progressive Congress (APC) Gubernatorial candidate in Rivers State, has been killed. Naija News understands that the APC campaign DG of Ahoada West was abducted earlier in the build-up to Saturday’s governorship and the house of assembly elections. The politician was, however, found in the…
LAGOS MARCH 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Mr Peter Obi of the Labour Party, LP, has revealed that Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State came against him during the February 25 presidential election. Obi also criticized those who claim the votes he got in Lagos were mainly from the Igbos. The former Anambra State Governor gave the statement on…
LAGOS MARCH 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An explosion and fire near an illegal oil refinery site in Nigeria’s Niger Delta region killed at least 12 people Friday, police said, although local residents reported a much higher death toll. The explosion in Emuoha council area of the southern Rivers state occurred along a pipeline targeted by illegal refinery operators…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-When shoe salesman Haruna Abubakar voted for President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015 and again in 2019, he was one of more than a million Nigerians backing the former army chief in his stronghold of northern Kano State. Home to Nigeria’s second largest city and the economic heart of the country’s Muslim north,…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Eight students of Madonna University, Elele, Rivers State have reportedly died in an auto crash on their way to Taraba State from Port Harcourt. According to reports, the students were travelling home from school on account of the forthcoming general election. An eyewitness, Matthew Mbam, said the incident happened on Saturday, February…
