LAGOS FEBRUARY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian opposition leader Peter Obi has emerged as one of the top contenders looking to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari in February’s election. A recent tweet claimed to show a picture of the Labour Party candidate sitting at a table with two Hero Lagers, a beer brewed in southeast Nigeria and often associated…
LAGOS JANUARY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian opposition leader Peter Obi has emerged as one of the top contenders looking to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari in February’s election. A recent Twitter post claimed to show a picture of Obi using a teleprompter during a speech at the London-based think tank Chatham House. But the claim is false: AFP…
LAGOS JANUARY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-With election fever ramping up in Nigeria, leading members of each party are drumming up support for their candidates. Roads and housing minister Babatunde Fashola, who supports the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), recently claimed that its presidential candidate Bola Tinubu issued Nigeria’s first state bond for infrastructure and development when he…