LAGOS SEPTEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian President Bola Tinubu on Thursday floated the idea of a transition back to democracy in neighbouring Niger similar to the nine-month period his country underwent in the late 1990s. The Economic Community of West African States has imposed sanctions on Niger after troops ousted President Mohamed Bazoum in a coup on July 26…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-President Bola Tinubu yesterday in Abuja declared support for a partnership between the Federal Ministry of Health’s National Eye Health Programme & the Peek Vision Foundation to provide more than 5 million pairs of eyeglasses to Nigerians with sight impairments. According to a statement by presidential spokesman, the president recounted how close…
LAGOS AUGUST 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-According to News Band has stumbled on a document wherein the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) categorically stated that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu was not a student of Chicago State University. This was contained in a letter written by Jennifer S. Dent, the Acting Legal Attache’, Office of Legal Attache’ of the…
LAGOS AUGUST 31ST President Bola Tinubu has expressed his deep concern over the political situation in Gabon and the socio-political stability in that country. Tinubu’s reaction came hours after a group of Gabonese military officers appeared on television Wednesday announcing they were “putting an end to the current regime” and cancelling an election that, according…
LAGOS AUGUST 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu will meet U.S. President Joe Biden on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York next month, his spokesman said on Saturday. The U.N. general assembly is scheduled for Sept. 18 to 26 in New York. Presidency spokesman Ajuri Ngelale said in a statement Tinubu…
LAGOS AUGUST 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian President Bola Tinubu said a swift, peaceful restoration of democratic order in neighboring Niger is crucial and that he is pushing back against pressure to apply military force. “Even as of this morning, I have been inundated with phone calls on the readiness of countries with their military force and contributions,”…
LAGOS AUGUST 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Leader of the ECOWAS delegation to Niger Republic, retired General Abdulsalami Abubakar, says he has submitted his report on the points raised by the military junta to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. He expressed hope that diplomacy and not war would prevail as stakeholders brainstorm to find a lasting solution to the coup…
LAGOS AUGUST 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A West African bloc mediator sent to meet Niger’s junta leaders following a July 26 coup says a peaceful way out of the crisis remains possible. Last week’s visit to Niger “has opened an avenue to start talking,” Abdulsalami Abubakar, a former Nigerian president, told reporters in the capital, Abuja. “Hopefully diplomacy…