LAGOS MAY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi, has called for attitudinal change towards education among Nigerians. He decried the subsisting situation of, in his words, “the lack of treating education with the seriousness it deserves by classifying money spent on it as expenditure rather than investment”. Making this observation on…
LAGOS MAY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Despite the Federal Government’s claim of footing the bills for the burial of former Vice President, Dr Alex Ekwueme, his family is yet to get a refund of 200,000 Pounds incurred as medical bill six months after. Although the Federal Government was said to have paid the money directly to the London…
LAGOS MAY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara and nine others have sued the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, over the conduct of ward and local government congresses of the party in Bauchi State. The plaintiffs claimed that the conduct of the congresses…
LAGOS MAY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) has taken over Sea Petroleum Oil & Gas Ltd. and other assets belonging to Sen. Stella Oduah-Ogiemwonyi over an unpaid debt of about N20 billion. AMCON said the takeover followed an injunction granted by Justice M.S. Hassan of the Federal High Court, Lagos against Sea…
LAGOS MAY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria has agreed to issue travel documents more quickly to its citizens who are in the process of being expelled from Canada as illegitimate refugee claimants, Canadian Immigration Minister, Ahmed Hussen said Friday. He said that was a key commitment he received this week during meetings with top government officials in Nigeria….
LAGOS AMY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Notwithstanding the spate of pirate attacks on its territorial waters, the Federal Government has declared that the Nigerian Constitution forbids the use of armed private guards on board vessels. The Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, who made this known at the 3th edition of Lagos International Maritime…
LAGOS MAY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control says Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has ordered the agency to return to the ports immediately. The order came less than three weeks after the NAFDAC Director-General, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, partly ascribed the drug abuse among youths to the unlawful importation of certain banned…
LAGOS MAY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Borno State Commissioner for Higher Education and aspirant for the House of Representatives, Usman Jaha (Babawo), in trouble for allegedly embarrassing the government by distributing kits for shoe polish and other items to youths in Gwoza Local Government Area, it emerged on Thursday. Though the kits are said to be his personal…