LAGOS JULY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The full list of the chairmen and vice chairmen of the Senate committees in the 9th National Assembly has been released, Daily Trust reports. Senate President Ahmad Lawan made the announcement during plenary on Tuesday, July 30. See the list below: 1. Agriculture – Abdullahi Adamu, Bima Enagi. 2. Airforce – Bala…
LAGOS JULY 3OTH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two billboards with the inscription ‘BAT 2023’ and a popular photograph of Bola Tinubu, a former governor of Lagos State and national leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress Party, has been mounted on a building a few meters away from the Lagos State Government Secretariat in Alausa, Ikeja. The large billboards…
LAGOS JULY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari opened his defence on. Tuesday by tendering some 26 documents, including copies of his academic credentials, including certified true copy (CTC) of the Confidential result sheet of University of Cambridge, West Africa School Certificate 1961 for Provincial Secondary School, Katsina. Buhari,listed as the second respondent in the petition by…
LAGOS JULY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson, has appointed Olukemi Olufunto Badenoch, aged 39, as Children and Families Minister, as part of his government reshuffle. Badenoch is a British Conservative politician and Member of Parliament (MP) for Saffron Walden. She was born in Wimbledon, London to Nigerian parents. Her childhood was spent in Lagos…
LAGOS JULY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former governor of Lagos, Akinwunmi Ambode has spoken on his rumoured planned defection from the All Progressive Congress, APC, to the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. There have been speculations in some quarters that Ambode was disappointed he did not make the ministerial list President Muhammadu Buhari submitted to the Nigerian Senate….
LAGOS JULY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-China has commenced the export of used cars popularly known as ‘tokunbo’ to Africa, Asia and Europe, with Nigeria one of the destinations for the first batch of 300 cars. The country’s Ministry of Commerce had, in a statement, announced that it had cleared 10 cities to begin the export of second-hand…
LAGOS JUY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Supreme Court on Tuesday adjourned hearing until August 20, in an application filed by the Peoples Democratic Party, and its candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, challenging the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal’s rejection of their request to access the Independent National Electoral Commission’s “central server”. NAN reports that the PDP and Abubakar alleged…
LAGOS JULY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Desire Oparanozie believes the Nigeria women’s team deserve to receive the same pay as the country’s male side. Oparanozie, who captained the Super Falcons to a Round of 16 finish at the 2019 Fifa Women’s World Cup, made the comment at the 2019 Ladies In Sports Conference in Lagos. In 2018, Thomas…
