LAGOS MARCH 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari will Monday depart for Accra, Ghana to attend the country’s 61st Independence Anniversary celebrations holding at the Independence Square on Tuesday, March 6, 2018. A statement issued by Femi Adesina, Special Adviser (Media) to the President stated that the president will use the opportunity to reaffirm the long-standing warm…
LAGOS MARCH 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s security forces have been ordered to defend all schools in “liberated areas” of the country’s northeast to avoid further mass abductions from schools by Boko Haram extremists, the president’s office announced Wednesday. Many in Africa’s most populous country have been outraged by the kidnapping of 110 girls in a Feb. 19…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has rejected the bill seeking to establish the Nigeria Peace Corps. The president said the functions of the corps as contained in the bill were duplication of existing security agencies. Both chambers of the National Assembly had months ago passed the bill and transmitted it to the President for…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Bola Tinubu, a national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), has written the national chairman of the party, John Odigie-Oyegun, accusing him of sabotage. According to TheCable, Bola Tinubu accused Oyegun of sabotaging his Presidential assignment of reconciling aggrieved members. Tinubu said Oyegun contravened the discussion they both had at the…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria will sell all assets seized by the government in anti-graft probes and use the funds to bolster the treasury, President Muhammadu Buhari said on Monday. Nigerian state coffers have in past years been ransacked by government officials and their associates, and corruption is prevalent throughout society. Buhari was elected in 2015…
Former Governor of Kaduna State, Balarabe Musa, has lambasted ex-Presidents, Ibrahim Babangida and Olusegun Obasanjo over their statements advising President Muhammadu Buhari not to seek re-election in 2019. He made the remark while responding to a question from The Sun. According to hi,, “That is stupid. Nobody should be deceived. They have not performed better…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-BokO Haram terrorist group has released three abducted University of Maiduguri lecturers in Magumeri, Borno State. Also released from the Boko Haram terrorists were 10 women kidnapped in a raid by the militant group on a military/police convoy on Damboa Road, near Maiduguri. Their release followed series of negotiations as directed by…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The media aide to former military President Ibrahim Babangida, Kassim Afegbua, says his life is now in danger, following the receipt of series of unknown phone calls from people threatening him and his family. Afegbua had been visiting offices of the Nigerian Police and the Directorate of State Department (DSS) since he…