LAGOS MAY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari will on Thursday, May 25 confer national honours on President-elect Bola Tinubu and Kashim Shettima, the vice-president-elect. Tinubu will be conferred with the Grand Commander of the Order of the Federal Republic (GCFR) while Shettima will be honoured with the Grand Commander of the Order of the Niger (GCON)….
LAGOS DECEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The leader of a gang of bandits, Bello Turji, has allegedly written a letter to President Muhammadu Buhari; Zamfara State Governor, Bello Matawalle and the Emir of Shinkafi. Turji, in the letter, said he and his man would like to have a meeting with traditional and religious leaders in Nigeria, adding that…
LAGOS JULY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The International Criminal Court has acknowledged a 27-page petition filed by Yoruba Nation agitators against President Muhammadu Buhari. The petition was signed by the Leader of Ilana Omo Oodua, Emeritus Professor Banji Akintoye; Yoruba Activist, Sunday Igboho; and other 49 persons fighting for the actualization of Oduduwa Republic, an agitated sovereign state…
LAGOS JUNE 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Security has been tightened across Lagos State as President Muhammadu Buhari is expected in the state on Thursday for project commissioning. Inspector General of Police Usman Baba arrived the state on Wednesday ahead of President Buhari. The PUNCH on Thursday quoted an anonymous senior police officer as saying Buhari’s “advanced team is…
LAGOS APRIL 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-For days now, protesters have continued to picket the Nigerian Embassy in London and the Nigeria House where President Muhammadu Buhari has been observing his medical vacation, frustrating efforts of medical personnel from attending to the president who is suffering pains from the kidney surgical transplant he had, Dementia and Alzheimer, a…
LAGOS DECEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Saturday named the acting Executive Director, Finance and Administration of the Niger Delta Development Commission as the commission’s interim administrator. The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, disclosed this in a statement titled “NDDC gets interim administrator.” The presidential…
LAGOS DECEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday declared the 2020 edition of the Lagos International Trade Fair open, reiterating the Federal Government’s commitment to revamping Nigeria’s Industrial Revolution Plan (NIRP). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the trade fair, which is being promoted by the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI),…
LAGOS MARCH 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-All Progressives Congress leader, Bola Tinubu, has asked the Federal Government to print more naira notes in order to save the economy from collapse even as the Covid-19 pandemic continues to bite harder. Tinubu said this in a statement he wrote in commemoration of his 68th birthday. The former governor of Lagos State…