LAGOS JUNE 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Association of Right and Welfare of Passengers in Nigeria (ARWPAN) has Congratulated President Ahmed Bola Tinubu on his successful inauguration. In a press conference in Abuja, the founder, Engr. Princess Tina Onojeghuo, the organization commended the president for appointment of credible key officers to serve Nigeria. According to her, Nigerians can expect…
LAGOS JUNE 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Trade Union Congress (TUC) on Sunday presented to the representatives of President Bola Tinubu, a list of demands to be met following the removal of petroleum subsidy. Arising from the session at the presidential villa, Abuja on Sunday night, both parties agreed to meet again on Tuesday to give time to…
LAGOS JUNE 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A rights group, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has urged President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to “set up a presidential panel of enquiry to promptly probe the grim allegations that US$2.1 billion and N3.1 trillion, being public funds from oil revenues, which were budgeted as fuel subsidy payments are missing and unaccounted…
LAGOS JUNE 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, on Thursday, called his witness to testify before the Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, sitting in Abuja. Atiku and his party are challenging the declaration of President Bola Tinubu of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, as winner of the presidential…
LAGOS JUNE 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The House of Representatives has asked the new administration to provide palliatives to mitigate the effect of the petroleum subsidy removal on Nigerians. The resolution was contained in a report submitted by a committee set up last year to investigate subsidy. The committee’s report was considered and approved on Thursday by the…
LAGOS MAY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The new President of Nigeria, Bola Tinubu, has officially inherited over N16.29tn uncompleted projects from his predecessor, Muhammadu Buhari, according to findings by The PUNCH. The projects were identified through the national monitoring and evaluation platform, EYEMARK, which was launched by Buhari in December last year. The former President noted that the…
LAGOS MAY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The removal of petrol subsidy will no longer be immediate, Vanguard gathered authoritatively last night. Recall that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu had said in his inauguration speech Monday that the subsidy was gone, as it was not provided for in the 2023 budget. But sources told Vanguard yesterday that implementation of the…
LAGOS MAY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Following President Bola Tinubu’s policy statement during his inaugural speech on Monday, on the removal of subsidy, most filling stations in Calabar have shut down while those selling have hiked the price from 210 to 750 naira per litre. Vanguard also observed that commuters who cannot afford to pay 300 naira per…