LAGOS MAY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has directed that any cabinet ministers seeking to run in next year’s elections should resign before May 16, the minister of information said on Wednesday. Under the electoral law that was amended in February, no political appointees are allowed to contest party primaries or vote during such primaries….
LAGOS FEBRUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian lawmakers plan to amend the constitution to compel a new president to nominate the cabinet within a month of taking office, documents showed on Wednesday, to avoid policy delays as the country prepares for elections next year. President Muhammadu Buhari took five months after he was re-elected to a second term…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has sacked the Ministers of Power, Saleh Mamman and his Agriculture and Rural Development counterpart, Alhaji Sabo Nanono. The President also announced the redeployment of two Ministers to take over from them. The Minister of Environment, Mohammed Mahmoud Abubakar is to take over as the Minister of Agriculture and…
LAGOS AUGUST 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has come under fire for stacking his new cabinet with ageing party loyalists despite hopes he might opt for more technocrats in his final term. The senate this week approved the list of 43 ministers after the former military ruler finally settled on their names some two months…
LAGOS JULY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The cold war between the immediate past governor of Edo State, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole and his successor, Mr Godwin Obaseki, took a sharp twist on Wednesday evening when a statement from the office of the Secretary to the State Government, SSG, Barrister Osarodion Ogie, announced the major cabinet reshuffle exercise carried out…
LAGOS MAY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Col Hameed Ali and former Governor of Osun State, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, have been listed as some of those who will emerge ministers to drive President Muhammadu Buhari’s “Next Level” agenda, a new report has said. Dr Babatunde Fowler, the Executive Chairman of the…
LAGOS MARCH 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The presidency has stated that President Muhammadu Buhari will likely dissolve his cabinet before his inauguration for a second term in office. Buhari won his re-election, polling over 15 million votes to defeat his main challenger and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Mr. Femi Adesina, the spokesman of President…
LAGOS DECEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Presidency on Monday blamed former Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan for current president Muhammadu Buhari’s delay in forming government cabinet. Buhari, sworn in on May 29, 2015, took over six months after to assemble his working cabinet – November 11. Although the president did not give reasons for the delay, over three…
