LAGOS MARCH 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-In exercise of the powers conferred on him by Sections 2, 3 and 4 of the Quarantine Act (CAP Q2 LFN 2004) and all other powers enabling him in that behalf, President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday signed the COVID-19 Regulations, 2020, which declared COVID-19 a dangerous infectious disease. This was made known…
LAGOS MARCH 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-More than 20 million Nigerians on Monday went into lockdown in sub-Saharan Africa’s biggest city Lagos and the capital Abuja, as the continent struggles to curb the spread of coronavirus. President Muhammadu Buhari ordered a two-week “cessation of all movements” in key cities to ward off an explosion of cases in Africa’s…
LAGOS MARCH 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government must think creatively and come up with ways of stabilising the Nigerian economy in the face of the negative economic impact of the Covid-19, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr Femi Gbajabiamila has said. The Speaker said the House had on Tuesday passed the Emergency Economic Stimulus…
LAGOS MARCH 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government in a statement issued on Wednesday directed the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation to reduce the ex-coastal and ex-depot prices of petrol, “to reflect current realities.” Reacting to the directive, the NNPC in a tweet on Wednesday, said: “effective 19th March 2020, the Ex-Coastal price for PMS will be reviewed…
LAGOS MARCH 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Accountant-General of the Federation Ahmed Idris appeared before a senate committee on Finance on Tuesday, March 10, where he gave a breakdown of how President Muhammadu Buhari‘s administration decreased the Excess Crude Account from the $2.2 Billion it inherited from Goodluck Jonathan’s administration to having $71.8 million in 2020. Idris revealed that…
LAGOS MARCH 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Salisu Lukman, Director General of Progressives Governors Forum, umbrella body of governors elected under the platform of All Progressives Congress (APC) has asked leaders of the party across all interests to seize opportunity of the lull occasioned by the injunction slammed on Comrade Adams Oshiomhole to name an Acting National chairman, and…
LAGOS MARCH 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A lawyer, Malcom Omirhobo, has filed a suit before the Federal High Court in Asaba, Delta State, seeking a stop to open grazing and alleged killings and kidnapping by Fulani herdsmen in some parts of the State. The suit marked FHC/ASB/CS/51/2020 was filed on Wednesday. He sued as respondents to the suit,…
LAGOS DECEMBER 1TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari will tomorrow depart from Abuja the nation’s capital for Aswan in Egypt, to attend a forum designed to set “an agenda for sustainable peace and development in Africa.” The forum which holds from December the 11th to the 12th is an initiative to address the interconnections between peace and…