LAGOS APRIL 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The federal government has directed the Comptroller General of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) Isah Jere, to handover to the most senior officer in the Service. This directive is coming following allegation that the outgoing NIS boss was plotting another tenure extension. Jere has had his retirement extended from last year to…
LAGOS APRIL 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)Nigeria’s federal government has officially recognised the Oba of Benin as the owner and custodian of all Benin artefacts looted and carted away from the shores of the country by a British military expedition in 1897. This was revealed in an official government Gazette seen by ARISE News. By the announced law,…
LAGOS APRIL 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government is to procure as well as instal baggage scanners in train stations traversing Abuja-Kaduna-Kano cities. Minister of State for Transportation, Ademola Adegoroye, disclosed this to newsmen on Wednesday on the outcome of the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo at the State House,…
LAGOS APRIL 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)- Human Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA Resource Centre), prominent Civil Society Organization, has urged the Federal Government under President Muhammadu Buhari and his political Party, the All Progressive Congress, to prioritize the revamp of the country’s refineries and tackle corruption in the petroleum sector before removing fuel subsidy. In a statement issued by…
LAGOS APRIL 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Olisa Agbakoba (SAN), a former President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), has chastised the Federal Government over the treason charge leveled against Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate Peter Obi. WITHIN NIGERIA reported that the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, had warned Peter Obi against inciting Nigerians to violence over the outcome of the presidential election….
LAGOS APRIL 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government has admonished the Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi from inciting people to violence over the outcome of the Presidential elections. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed gave the admonition in Washington DC during his official engagements with some international media organisations. The…
LAGOS MARCH 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, on Tuesday received a letter from Nigerian youths asking it to prevail on the federal government to nullify the February 25 presidential election. The youth group had stormed the ECOWAS headquarters in Abuja to protest the manner in which the Independent National Electoral Commission,…
LAGOS MARCH 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A total of N453.90 billion was approved today by the Federal Executive Council for the purchase of rolling stock, operational, and maintenance equipment for the currently under-construction Kano-Maradi standard gauge rail line. The Minister of Transportation, Mu’azu Jaji Sambo, disclosed this to State House Correspondents after this week’s Federal Executive Council meeting…