LAGOS MARCH 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Chairman, Senate Committee on Agriculture, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, frightened his colleagues with a sneeze during plenary on Tuesday. Adamu represents Nasarawa West Senatorial District. The PUNCH reports that Nigeria has recorded 44 confirmed cases of coronavirus; and cough, sneezes, and fatigue are among the symptoms of the disease. Adamu, who did…
LAGOS JANUARY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court sitting in the Bwari area of Abuja has reaffirmed the sack of Senator Ifeanyi Ubah of the Young Progressives Party (YPP). Senator Ubah was the lawmaker representing Anambra South district in the upper chamber of the National Assembly. In a ruling on Friday, Justice Bello…
LAGOS DECEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Senator representing Imo North Senatorial District, Benjamin Uwajumogu, is dead. Senator representing Imo West Senatorial District, Rochas Okorocha, confirmed the death of Uwajumogu to reporters at the Senate, earlier today, Wednesday, December 18, 2019. Uwajumogu, who was Speaker of the Imo State House of Assembly during Okorocha’s tenure as the State…
LAGOS OCTOBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Senate President Ahmad Lawan (Yobe North) was said to have secured 26 job slots for his constituents, from the Federal Inland Revenue Service, Daily Trust exclusively gathered. This is just as the job scandal rocking the upper chamber gets messier with senators threatening showdown over the sharing formula of the employment slots…
LAGOS JULY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Senator Dino Melaye was on Wednesday arraigned in an FCT High Court, Apo, on a six-count charge, bordering on attempted suicide, attempt to escape from custody and damage of police property. Melaye who represents Kogi West senatorial zone, denied committing the offences, while Justice Silvanus Oriji granted him bail in the sum…
LAGOS APRIL 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Another Senator, Bukar Mustapha, is dead. His death comes shortly after that of Senator Ali Wakili from Bauchi State. Mustapha is the representative of Katsina North Senatorial District, the area from where President Muhammadu Buhari hails. He came to the Senate from Daura Zone on the platform of the All Progressives Congress….
LAGOS MARCH 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Peter Obi, a former governor of Anambra State has stated that what governors earn in Nigeria will cause more outrage in the country than revelation of Senators’ salaries, Daily Post report. The former governor speaking as a panelist at the dialogue organised by Ripples Centre for Data and Investigative Journalism in Lagos…
LAGOS MARCH 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Italy has elected the first black senator in its history, it was announced on Tuesday, and he belongs to the anti-immigration League. The Local reports. Toni Iwobi, of Spirano in Lombardy, announced “with great emotion” on his Facebook page that he had been elected to the senate in Italy’s general election. “After…