LAGOS AUGUST 26TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-Former President Olusegun Obasanjo says he is in a hurry to see Nigeria rise to greatness. He said he is “getting close” to his departure lounge in life. Obasanjo made the remark while speaking on his new book, Nigeria: Past and Future, where he assessed the country’s leadership journey and issued stern…
LAGOS JULY 16TH (NEWSRNAGERS)=Two prominent finance and economic experts, Dr Paul Alaje and Mr Ugo Onuoha, have formed a consensus that the present comatose state of Nigeria’s economy and the harrowing living conditions of the overwhelming majority of the populace have their roots in wrong-headed economic policies introduced at the inception of the Tinubu Administration….
LAGOS JULY 16TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu, his counterpart in Guinea-Bissau, Umaru Sissoco Embaló, Prime Minister Ali Lamine Zeine of Niger, and former President of Niger, Issoufou Mahamadou, were among the long list of eminent personalities who graced the burial of late former President Muhammadu Buhari, in Daura, Katsina, yesterday. Also present were Vice President Kashim…
LAGOS JULY 3RD (NEWSRNAGERS)-Former President Muhammadu Buhari has reportedly been sick and only recently discharged from an intensive care unit (ICU) in a United Kingdom (UK) hospital. According to Empowered Newswire, a close relative of the former president said he took ill in London during a medical check-up trip. The report said Buhari was…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The former commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism and Chieftain of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Niger state, Jonathan Vatsa has said that he is not surprised that former President Mohammadu Buhari decided to stay away from the public presentation of Military President, General Ibrahim Babangida’s autobiography book “the Journey of…
LAGOS DECEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Femi Adesina, former spokesperson to ex-President Muhammadu Buhari, has stated that his principal refrained from removing the petrol subsidy during his administration out of concern for its impact on “ordinary” Nigerians. In a tribute marking Buhari’s 82nd birthday on Tuesday, Adesina highlighted that the former president’s decisions were deeply influenced by his…
LAGOS DECEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Labour Party leader and former presidential candidate Peter Obi has extended warm birthday wishes to former President Muhammadu Buhari on the occasion of his 82nd birthday. Taking to his official X (formerly Twitter) account, Obi wrote: “Your Excellency, President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, as you mark your 82nd birthday anniversary today, on behalf…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Wednesday’s judgement of the President Election Petition Court will not mark the end of the controversies trailing the outcome of the 2023 presidential election. News Direct recalls that the five-man panel, in a final judgement read by Justice Haruna Simon Tsammani, struck out the three petitions filed by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Labour…