LAGOS FEBRUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Vice Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Peter Obi, has said that not even electioneering in preparation for the February election would stop him from his routine visit to schools. Obi said this on Wednesday during his visit to St. Patrick’s Secondary School, Ugwuagba, Obosi. Obi, who encouraged…
LAGOS OCTOBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi, has lauded the great contributions of Nigerian teachers towards the country’s development and charged governments at all levels to take them serious by doing more to appreciate them. “I wish to use the opportunity offered by this year’s World Teachers Day to express my…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Bayelsa State Government has directed immediate closure of all schools in the state as a precautionary measure to avoid loss of lives in the current flooding in the state. The decision was reached at the State Executive Council meeting presided over by the State Governor, the Honourable Henry Seriake Dickson, who…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Property worth hundreds of millions of Naira, farmlands, crops, fish ponds, worship centers, schools and roads have been destroyed in Bayelsa State, no thanks to the ravaging floods that has affected communities. Residents are now seeking the intervention of the federal and state governments, through the National Emergency Management Agency and State…
LAGOS MARCH 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The former Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi, has called on Federal, State and Local Governments to stop all forms of taxations and levies on voluntary agencies and privately-owned primary and secondary schools across the country that render services for the common good. He made the call during his recent visit…
By Amos Okioma Hundreds of residents in Kilama, Tein,Tambiri,Egbebiri communities within Biseni in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa have been rendered homeless following a violent rainstorm. The whirlwind that accompanied the storm blew away the roofs of over 70 houses, five churches and three schools and destroyed over electric poles, disrupting power supply to…
LAGOS MARCH 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s security forces have been ordered to defend all schools in “liberated areas” of the country’s northeast to avoid further mass abductions from schools by Boko Haram extremists, the president’s office announced Wednesday. Many in Africa’s most populous country have been outraged by the kidnapping of 110 girls in a Feb. 19…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Catholic Archbishop of Owerri, Most Rev. Anthony J. V. Obinna, commended the former governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi, for handing over schools to the original owners – the missions – while he was the governor of Anambra State. The cleric said that for that singular act that changed the…