http://ift.tt/2xqHR49 Shekarau LAGOS OCTOBER 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former Minister of Education, Ibrahim Shekarau, has indicated interest to run for the presidency in 2019 on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. His spokesperson, Sule Ya’u Sule, said Mr. Shekarau, who is also a former Governor of Kano State, sent a notification letter to the PDP…
http://ift.tt/2xqELNz LAGOS OCTOBER 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian Government on Thursday announced the recovery of $85m from the United Kingdom (UK). It said the money is part of stolen funds from the controversial Malabu Oil deal. Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami stated this at the ongoing consultative meeting on assets recovery in Abuja. Malami decried…
http://ift.tt/2gLz3CI LAGOS OCTOBER 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The All Progressive Congress, APC, has denied reports that the party’s National Executive Committee, NEC meeting has been postponed. On Thursday, there was a report that the party’s National Caucus and NEC meetings, scheduled for October 30 and 31 respectively, had been postponed. The party’s publicity secretary, Bolaji Abdullahi, however denied…
http://ift.tt/2yN0XVT LAGOS OCTOBER 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The former Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Pension Reforms, Abdulrasheed Maina, threatened yesterday to open a can of worms and implicate what he called a cabal in the government of President Muhammadu Buhari. Disclosing Maina’s position in a statement, his family said that he was invited to join the Buhari…
http://ift.tt/2z7nhds LAGOS OCTOBER 26TH (NEWRANGERS)-The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has said that the passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) by the National Assembly, especially the lower chamber, may become feasible before the end of the year. Dogara, who spoke yesterday in Abuja at a stakeholders’ dialogue organised by the Civil…
http://ift.tt/2yREsyO Buhari LAGOS OCTOBER 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two months after he returned from his medical sojourn in London, United Kingdom (UK) for an undisclosed ailment, President Muhammadu Buhari still operates from his official residence located in the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The president had, two days after returning from the medical vacation which spanned 103 days, written to…
http://ift.tt/2y7yWnt Dr Goodluck Jonathan LAGOS OCTOBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Goodluck Jonathan, immediate past Nigerian President, on Wednesday, failed to appear before an Abuja Federal High Court as defence witness in the ongoing trial of former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Olisa Metuh. The Justice Okon Abang-led court had ordered the former President to…
http://ift.tt/2i5wXtS Davido and Mayowa Ogunbanjo LAGOS OCTOBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Mayowa Ogunbayo, another friend of Nigeria’s hip hop artist, David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido, has been stabbed to death in the United Kingdom. This brings to four the number of Davido’s friends who have died in October. First was Umueke Tagbo, believed to have died from…