LAGOS JULY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Dr Akinwunmi Adesina, has raised concerns over the Federal Government’s plan to import food, stating that the policy is depressing. According to Nairametrics, he stated this during the Council of Anglican Provinces of Africa retreat held in Abuja on Saturday where he spoke on the…
LAGOS JULY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Professor Kingsley Moghalu, has said the removal of fuel subsidy and devaluation of naira by President Bola Tinubu were right policies wrongly implemented. The Professor of Political Economics said both the petrol (fuel) subsidy and defence of naira by the previous administration…
LAGOS JUNE 28TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-Lagos lawyer and human right activist, Chief (Barr) Malcolm Omirhobo has faulted President Bola Tinubu approval of N50,000 uplift grants for 3.6m Nigerian families. Recalled that President Bola Tinubu has approved an uplift grant under the National Construction and Household Support Programme for 3.6m Nigerian families. The initiative according to Presidential spokesman…
LAGOS JUNE 8TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-Lagos lawyer and human right activities, Chief (Barr) Malcolm Omirhobo has faulted the claim by Nigeria Governors Forum of not being able to pay N60,000 minimum wage. He recommend that state governments that cannot sustain the N60,000.00 .00 minimum wage should be merged with other capable states because it is absolutely wrong…
LAGOS MAY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)–Former presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, has criticised the Federal Government over the introduction of the 0.5 per cent cyber security levy. Obi’s reaction comes after the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), described the planned cyber security levy introduced by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on all electronic…
LAGOS APRIL 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 general election, Peter Obi has raised concerns again at the nation’s rising debt profile saying that N97.3 trillion is on the high side and worrisome. According to the former Anambra State Governor, even more disturbing is the fact that most of these…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Balogun of Eko, Abisoye Oshodi, has faulted the claim by the Oba of Benin, Oba Ewuare II, that Lagos was founded by Binis. The Oba of Benin, who was in Lagos State on Sunday, had claimed that according to history, Lagos was founded by the Binis. The monarch, who was in…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Democratic Coalition (NADECO) US chapter has faulted the judgment of the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) on the mandatory 25 percent status of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja, describing it as illogical. The group also disagreed with the court’s handling of IREV evidence against the opposition political parties. The…
