LAGOS MAY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Following the devastating attack in Plateau State that left scores dead and many more injured, Peter Obi, the flagbearer of the Labour Party, has called on the Tinubu-led government to take swift and decisive action to curb the rising violence. The attack, carried out by bandits, targeted Zurak Kompani and Bandalala communities,…
LAGOS MAY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government has reacted to the planned alliance between Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate in the 2023 elections, Peter Obi, and his counterpart in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar. Recall that Obi held a private meeting with Atiku and other PDP stakeholders in Abuja last week. He also met…
By Femi Adeoti LAGOS MAY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Restlessness and restiveness fit them to the hilt. The perfect words to tag them. They are always on the move. Only for the wrong reason. Sad. Very quick to point out how they do things in other lands. They would tell us the economic downtown is global. As if…
LAGOS MAY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A Taiwanese investor in Nigeria, Ivy Hung, has appealed to President Bola Tinubu to intervene in the recovery of an alleged $1.1m fraud suffered by her company, Polleen Corporation. Ivy Hung lamented that all attempts to bring the fraudster to justice over the $1,164,646 fraud has proved abortive, alleging complicity on the…
LAGOS APRIL 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Bola Tinubu was forced to travel to Saudi Arabia on a charter flight at the weekend for the ongoing World Economic Forum in Riyadh from the Netherlands, according to the Peoples Gazette. It was learnt that his main private jet was undergoing rehabilitation and a second aircraft he was travelling on…
LAGOS APRIL 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The President Bola Tinubu-led Nigerian government has approved N225 ($0.15) per kilowatt-hour tariff increment for Band A electricity consumers in the country. The Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), Musliu Oseni, who made this known at a press briefing in Abuja on Wednesday said the increase will see the…
LAGOS MARCH 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian National Committee of the International Press Institute (IPI Nigeria) has appealed to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to activate the powers of his office as Commander-in-Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces to direct the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Christopher Musa, to produce Segun Olatunji, the Editor of FirstNews, who…
LAGOS MARCH 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu will introduce a three-month ban on ministers and other government officials from going on publicly funded foreign trips. Mr Tinubu’s chief of staff said the move was prompted by the president’s “concerns about the rising cost of travel expenses” by public officials. The ban will take effect on…
