LAGOS AUGUST 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Bola Tinubu has sent Oluwole Afolabi, a lawyer of the All Progressives Congress — who inundated Adams Oshiomole with legal battles leading to his removal as party chairman in 2020 — to the U.S. to defend him in the Chicago university records case in which his principal opponent Atiku Abubakar is…
LAGOS AUGUST 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Bola Tinubu has released the portfolios for the 45 confirmed ministerial nominees with former Rivers State governor Nyesom Wike in charge of the Ministry of Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and Festus Keyamo manning the Ministry of Aviation. Other ministers are Wale Edun (Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy), Adegboyega Oyetola…
LAGOS AUGUST 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Bola Tinubu has until August 23 to present persuasive arguments as to why Chicago State University should not be ordered to release his academic records to Atiku Abubakar, his rival in the February 25 Nigerian presidential election, according to court filings seen by Peoples Gazette. This deadline was imposed on August…
LAGOS AUGUST 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday said the biting sanctions imposed by the Economic Community of West African States on the Niger junta would not be lifted despite the military leaders’ promise to negotiate with the regional bloc to resolve the crisis in the francophone country. Tinubu, who stated this when he received…
LAGOS AUGUST 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s international dollar-denominated bonds fell on Wednesday, after the president’s spokesman said petrol prices did not need to rise more, and blamed foreign exchange shortages on “gross mismanagement” at the central bank. Longer dated notes fell further. The 2051 maturity dropped as much as 1.7 cents on the dollar to 68.894 cents,…
LAGOS AUGUST 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The presidency has officially declared that there will be no increase in petroleum product prices at the present moment. A Twitter post from the Nigerian Television Authority read: “The presidency says there is no increase in petroleum product prices at this time as the President is convinced based on the information before…
LAGOS AUGUST 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has praised the solidarity of the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) on the political impasse in the Republic of Niger. The President spoke when he received the Special Envoy of President Ali Bongo Ondimba and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Gabon,…
LAGOS AUGUST 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has threatened to declare a nationwide strike if there is further hike in the pump price of petrol from the existing N617 naira. It vowed to proceed on total, comprehensive and indefinite nationwide shutdown of the country. This was made known by the NLC President, Joe Ajaero,…