LAGOS MAY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Tensions ran high on Sunday in southeastern Nigeria as the former separatist region commemorated the more than one million people who died in the Biafra war and famine of the late 1960s. The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), the leading separatist group, is remembering war victims over two days, with a candlelit…
LAGOS MAY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-There is tension and palpable fear among the political class as All Progressives Congress, APC, has taken over the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, secretariat located at 42A Murtala Mohammed Highway in Calabar Municipality. This is coming barely three days after Governor Ben Ayade had defected to the ruling APC and commended his former party,…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Thereis tension in the camp of the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, over increasing protests from lawmakers, following recent actions taken by President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration. The fear, Daily Sun gathered, is borne of claims that some of the lawmakers drawn from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the ruling All Progressives Congress…