LAGOS FEBRUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Violent protests in Senegal against the postponement of presidential elections have spread across the country, with the first fatality reported. A student died in clashes with police on Friday in the northern city of Saint-Louis, an opposition leader and a local hospital source said. In the capital Dakar, security forces fired tear […]
LAGOS FEBRUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has suspended the ongoing re-run elections in 20 polling units in specific constituencies in Enugu, Akwa-Ibom and Kano states. It said this was due to disruptions, irregularities and abduction of election officials. The commission disclosed this in a statement by Sam Olumekun, National Commissioner and Chairman, […]
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s northern Kano state declared a 24-hour curfew on Wednesday after a tribunal overturned the election of an opposition candidate as governor and declared a member of President Bola Tinubu’s party the rightful winner. Police in Kano, which has the highest number of registered voters, said in a statement that violators of […]
By Sola Olumese LAGOS SEPTEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-I confess that last Wednesday, I feared I may be a masochist. I do not know what else one diagnoses after he spent most of 10 hours listening to the Presidential Election Petitions Court. I mean, I had other things to do, and I should have moved on to […]
LAGOS JUNE 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In response to the petition filed by Peter Obi, a presidential aspirant from the Labour Party, against Bola Tinubu at the tribunal, Babatunde Gbadamosi, a former candidate for Lagos Governorship, recently posted on his social media accounts. In his post, Gbadamosi claimed that, Peter Obi had made thorough preparations to counter election […]
LAGOS APRIL 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The All Peoples Movement (APM) has said the victory of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, will not stand owing to the “flawed process” of nominating his vice presidential pick, Kashim Shettima. The party, which filed a petition against the outcome of the 25 February presidential election on 20 […]
LAGOS MARCH 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Six aggrieved Nigerians have filed a lawsuit against the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Mahmood Yakubu, its chairman, all INEC national commissioners; 177,606 polling officers, and Usman Alkali, Inspector General of Police, over the conduct of the just concluded controversial general election. The suit, which was received by Abuja Federal High Court on March […]
LAGOS MARCH 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The European Union Election Observation Mission to Nigeria 2023 on Monday knocked the Independent National Electoral Commission for failing to live up to expectations in Nigeria’s electoral process. The Chief Observer, EU Election Observation Mission, Barry Andrews, in his preliminary statement of the EU EOM on the governorship and state Houses of […]
LAGOS MARCH 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The pan Yoruba socio-political Organisation, Afenifere, in Lagos State, has called for the cancellation of the governorship and House of Assembly elections held in the state saying the exercise was fraught with irregularities. Afenifere, in a statement by its Lagos State leader and chairman, Chief Supo Shonibare, and Otunba Tunde Onakoya, said […]
LAGOS MARCH 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Peter Obi Support Network (POSN) has asked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to cancel the results of the Governorship and State Assembly elections held on Saturday in Rivers, Lagos and Imo states over widespread irregularities. The group in a statement issued on Sunday lamented how the ruling parties in […]
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