LAGOS AUGUST 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The management of an online newspaper, Premium Times has raised the alarm over harassment of his workers by the Nigeria police, just as it demands immediate release of its reporter, Samuel Ogundipe who had been detained over a story. A press statement signed Dapo Olorunyomi, Publisher of Premium Times made available to…
LAGOS AUGUST 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)- Chief Chinedu Arthur-Ugwa, Coordinator of Ohanaeze Youth Wing is South South on Friday urged politicians to focus on public interest in the current crisis in the National Assembly. Arthur-Ugwa said that the timely intervention of Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo on the crisis averted embarrassment to the nation. He said that…
LAGOS JULY 22ND (NEWRANGERS)-The Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, has ordered the immediate commencement of a 72-hour joint operation to restore sanity around Apapa and environs. This comes after activities of truck drivers had caused traffic gridlock and made vehicular movement around the axis near impossible over the past few days. Prof. Osinbajo who made…
LAGOS JUNE 24TH (NEWSRANGRS)-The ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, has adopted “Progress” as its new slogan and dumped “Change”, which it used to assume power in 2015. Though the party is yet to formally amend its constitution to this effect, one of the announcers at Saturday’s ongoing convention of the party announced the change. “I…
LAGOS JUNE 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has vowed not to meet with aggrieved members of the New Peoples Democratic Party bloc in the All Progressives Congress. This was disclosed to newsmen on Monday in Abuja by a top functionary of the Buhari Administration. The nPDP members had given as condition for their continued stay in…
LAGOS JUNE 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The helicopter that conveyed Vice President Yemi Osinbajo to the 2018 graduation ceremony of the Senior Division Course 1 of the Nigeria Customs Command and Staff College, Gwagwalada, Abuja, was forced to land few seconds after take off on Thursday. The vice president was said to be returning to the Presidential Villa…
LAGOS MAY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday said the position of his Vice, Yemi Osinbajo was under threat. Buhari said this at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, while hosting a delegation of the Conference of Nigerian Female Parliamentarians. Reacting to the demand of the group for a female Vice President of the country, Buhari,…
LAGOS MARCH 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari, his Deputy, Professor Yemi Osinbajo and Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode on Thursday took turns to eulogise the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as he clocked 66. Speaking at the 10th Bola Ahmed Tinubu Colloquium, organised to commemorate the former…
