LAGOS MAY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), in Kwara, Alhaji Kawu Baraje has said that parallel congresses of the party in 21 out of its 22 controlled states is a bad omen that all is not well with the party. Alhaji Kawu Baraje stated this on Sunday while speaking with journalists…
LAGOS MAY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki yesterday said Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai’s claim that President Muhammad Buhari is capable of winning Kwara State, among some other states being led by members of the New- PDP, if they should revolt against the President in 2019, is laughable Saraki, while addressing delegates to…
LAGOS MAY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)- President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday said since its inception in 2015, his administration has succeeded in recovering trillions of naira stolen by those he described as people without conscience. He also admitted that anti-corruption war is not easy to fight because it affects different branches of national lives. The President also…
LAGOS MAY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari is under pressure to disclose the state of his health after he embarked on a fourth medical trip to London. Nigeria’s opposition party, People’s Democractic Party (PDP), said it was time for the president to reveal his medical condition. PDP spokesman Kola Ologbodiyan said: “We need full disclosure…
LAGOS MAY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari said on Monday he is travelling to the United Kingdom to see his doctor. “I will be travelling to the United Kingdom tomorrow, to see my doctor, at his request,” said Buhari on his official Twitter account. Buhari said he will be away for four days and plans…
LAGOS MAY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-President Trump warmly welcomed the president of Nigeria to the White House Monday, the first high-profile meeting with a sub-Saharan African leader for a president who has previously disparaged the continent. Proclaiming a good relationship with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, Trump told reporters he appreciated the nation’s role as a “strong democracy…
LAGOS MAY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-President Trump said Monday that he urged Nigeria’s president, Muhammadu Buhari, to remove trade barriers to allow additional US investment in the African nation. Trump noted that the United States sends more than $1 billion in foreign aid annually to Nigeria and said it should get something in return. ‘‘We think that…
LAGOS APRIL 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-– Pope Francis has decried an attack on a church in Nigeria that killed 15 people, including two priests. In remarks Sunday to the public in St. Peter’s Square, the pontiff prayed that Nigeria’s Christian community can find harmony and peace. The massacre last week occurred in Benue state in central Nigeria,…