LAGOS JUNE 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The All Progressives Congress (APC) governors from the North have rejected the choice of Senate President Ahmed Lawan as the consensus presidential candidate of the party. The National Chairman of the party, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, was said to have announced Lawan as the consensus candidate, a decision members of the National Working…
LAGOS OCTOBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Atiku Abubakar Out of the race As PDP ‘Zones’ Presidential Ticket to South , Chairmanship Seat To North/ There are strong indications that the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) presidential ticket for 2023 may have been zoned to the Southern region. This comes after the PDP’s leadership reportedly resolved to zone the party’s…
LAGOS AUGUST 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-There is a high likelihood that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will pick its presidential candidate for the 2023 elections from the northern part of the country as stakeholders are set to zone the chairmanship position of the party to the South. During its 92nd National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting at the…
LAGOS JULY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Southern states’ governors have agreed that the successor of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), should come from the region. This was part of the communique they issued following their meeting on Monday in Lagos. During the meeting, the governors also deliberated on insecurity, constitution amendment, PIB and anti-open grazing law…
LAGOS MARCH 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The strike action embarked upon by the cattle and foodstuff dealers under the aegis of the Amalgamated Union of Foodstuff and Cattle Dealers of Nigeria (AUFCDN) has been suspended. The agreement to suspend the strike was reached when the leadership of the trade union met with Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State…
LAGOS AUGUST 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Dr. Obadiah Mailafia, says repentant terrorists revealed that a serving northern governor is a Boko Haram leader. Mailafia said this on ‘Morning Crossfire’ programme on Nigeria Info Abuja 95.1FM on Monday. The former CBN deputy governor said he had a chat with…
By Michael Owhoko LAGOS AUGUST 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Praying for Nigeria’s redemption from its current woes is like asking God to prevent a building with defective foundation located in the Lekki area of Lagos from collapse. Even intercessions by bestof prayer warriors cannot save such a building. As long as Nigeria continue with its current inapt political…
LAGOS JULY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Alhaji Abdulazeez Yari, the immediate past Governor of Zamfara State, has stated that the South should have a shot at the presidency in 2023. He stated this while speaking to reporters stressing that there is a need to ensure power shifts after the tenure of President Buhari. Yari said: “As we have…