LAGOS JANUARY 24TH (NEWRANGERS)-Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.) proposed an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would allow President Trump to serve a third term in the White House so that the country “can sustain the bold leadership our nation so desperately needs.” Ogles proposed an amendment on Thursday that says, “No person shall be elected…
Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Professor Mahmood Yakubu has commended members of the National Assembly over the early amendment of the Electoral Bill. Yakubu who made the commendation in a goodwill remark during a meeting with the Senate and House of Representatives conference committee on the Electoral Act amendment bill 2021 in Abuja…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has written to the Senate, seeking an amendment to the recently signed Petroleum Industry Act, PIA. In the letter, President Buhari wants an amendment to the new Act to allow for the removal of the Ministers of Petroleum and Finance from the board of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation,…
LAGOS JUNE 23RD (NEWSRANNGERS)-The Presidency has washed its hands off the current efforts at the National Assembly to amend the laws establishing the Nigerian Press Council, the National Broadcasting Commission. These are the agencies of government that regulate the print media and broadcast media, respectively in the country. The planned amendments to these laws has…
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The President of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Christopher Isiguzo, on Monday reiterated the position of stakeholders in the media towards the National Press Council (Amendment) Bill currently before the National Assembly. He said a stakeholders’ meeting was important to settle the grey areas. He added that any regulation that tended towards…