LAGOS JANUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has fired the heads of the country’s armed forces whom he appointed when he first took office in 2015. In a surprise move, he also tweeted the names of their replacements. No reason was given for the resignations of the army, navy, air force and chief of defence…
LAGOS JANUARY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 general elections, Mr. Peter Obi, has described as serious threat to Nigeria’s unity, the alarming rate of corruption and worsening level of insecurity in the country. Obi who made this known in a message to mark the Armed Forces…
LAGOS DECEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The House of Representatives has denied apologising to the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), or anybody in the Presidency for inviting him to address Nigerians on the growing insecurity in the country. Chairman of the House Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Benjamin Kalu, issued the denial in a statement on…
LAGOS DECEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Financial Times has reported that Nigeria is at risk of becoming a failed state. According to an editorial published earlier on Tuesday, the UK-based newspaper said the spate of insecurity in the country shows that the Nigerian “the government is no longer in control.” With over 200 million people, Financial Times…
LAGOS DECEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-IF anyone still doubted that criminals have overrun parts of Nigeria, the audacious bandits that stormed Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State, on December 11 and ferried away over 300 boys erased all such illusion. The kidnapping was spectacular in itself; the fact that the terrorists struck in a town a…
LAGOS DECEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former President Goodluck Jonathan seems to be undecided yet about returning to office in 2023 when President Muhammadu Buhari completes his second term. Speculations that the former president may take over power from President Buhari, who succeeded him in 2015, may not end soon as Dr Jonathan could not give a definite…
LAGOS DECEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The senate has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to sack the ”overstayed” service chiefs. The resolution of the upper legislative chamber followed a motion sponsored by Kashim Shettima, senator representing Borno central. The request by the lawmakers is coming six months after they asked the service chiefs to resign. Gabriel Olonisakin, chief of…
LAGOS DECEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to President Buhari has said that the clamor for the sacking of service chiefs is ‘out of place’. Shehu said this when he appeared on Arise TV news on Monday night, November 30. According to Shehu, the president has the prerogative to appoint or…