LAGOS JUNE 6TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-At least 78 Nigerians have been killed and 12 abducted in violent attacks across the country since President Bola Tinubu took the oath of office. The incidents happened in Rivers, Zamfara, Kaduna, Ogun, Sokoto, and the Federal Capital Territory. This was contained in data obtained from the Nigeria Security Tracker, a project…
LAGOS JUNE 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At a ceremony in November, the Nigerian government celebrated the discovery of as many as 1 billion barrels of oil in the country’s arid northeast, almost 1,000 kilometers (621 miles) away from the crude-rich Niger Delta. The state’s partners in the multi-billion dollar project in the impoverished, landlocked corner of the country…
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…
