LAGOS APRIL 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) declared on Tuesday that it would soon sanction governors and elected public officers on its platform who are supporting the 2027 re-election of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Akwa Ibom State governor, Umo Eno, his Delta State colleague who recently defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC), Sheriff…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A video review official who played a key part in the controversial decision to award Paris Saint-Germain a stoppage-time penalty against Newcastle has been removed from his Champions League game on Wednesday. The decision contradicted Uefa’s own advice to referees, and PSG scored from the spot in a late equaliser which has…
LAGOS JANUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Fresh facts have emerged about what transpired during the National Working Committee (NWC) meeting which culminated in the suspension of Senator Chimaroke Nnamani, former Governor Ayo Fayose’s son, Oluwajomiloju, and other candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Enugu, Imo and Ekiti States. The NWC also dissolved the Ekiti State Executive…
LAGOS JULY 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government says it will sanction Trust TV, a television owned by Media Trust Group, and the BBC over their stories on bandits in the North. In separate documentaries, Trust TV and BBC Africa Eye exposed the activities of the gangs making life difficult for Nigerians. Speaking with journalists on Thursday,…
LAGOS MARCH 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-As many homes and businesses continue to groan under poor power supply and lack of prepaid meters, the Nigerian government has vowed to sanction “underperforming” distribution companies. This comes more than eight years after the country’s power sector was privatised, leading to the transfer of the distribution and generation companies carved out…
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The ECOWAS Court of Justice in Abuja in a landmark ruling today “restrained the government of President Muhammadu Buhari and its agents from unlawfully imposing sanctions or doing anything whatsoever to harass, intimidate, arrest or prosecute Twitter and/or any other social media service provider(s), media houses, radio and television broadcast stations, the…
LAGOS JANUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Napoli coach Gennaro Gattuso said Sunday he felt foolish for giving Nigerian striker Victor Osimhen permission to travel home for Christmas with the forward testing positive for coronavirus on his return. Osimhen faces club sanctions after images of him partying without wearing a mask were shared on social media. But Gattuso said…
LAGOS OCTOBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Board of Inquiry set up by the Defence Headquarters, Abuja, put together at the instance of President Muhammadu Buhari has recommended sanctions for five personnel of the Nigerian Army and the police over the killing of three policemen and one civilian in Ibi, Taraba State, on August 6. The board, in…