LAGOS SEPTEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has requested the National Assembly to approve for it $4,054,476,863 and €710 million. Buhari is also seeking the nation’s legislature’s approval for grant components of $125 million in the 2018-2020 external rolling borrowing plan. This is contained in a letter addressed to both chambers of…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Report has emerged that journalists were barred from a closed meeting between President Muhammdu Buhari and Igbo leaders. The meeting, which journalists were not allowed to attend, is taking place at the newly commissioned Ultra modern executive chambers at the Imo Government House, Owerri. In attendance were the Ebonyi state Governor, David…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has said that the Minister of Agriculture, Mohammed Nanono and his Power counterpart, Saleh Mamman, were sacked in a bid to reinvigorate his cabinet and consolidate legacy achievements. Buhari also hinted that the contributions of the ministers could be considered “weak”. “These significant review steps…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Femi Adesina, presidential spokesman, announced this at a briefing in the Presidential Villa on Wednesday. He said the duo have been replaced with the Ministers of Environment, Mohammed Mahmoud Abubakar, and Minister of State, Works and Housing, Abubakar Aliyu. Here are some comments gathered by NEWS DIRECT @Angel wrote: “They moving to…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has sacked the Ministers of Power, Saleh Mamman and his Agriculture and Rural Development counterpart, Alhaji Sabo Nanono. The President also announced the redeployment of two Ministers to take over from them. The Minister of Environment, Mohammed Mahmoud Abubakar is to take over as the Minister of Agriculture and…
LAGOS AUGUST 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 20 private jets were reported to have brought in dignitaries to Kano for the wedding of President Muhammadu Buhari’s son on Friday. Yusuf, Buhari’s only son, got married to Zahra, daughter of the Emir of Bichi. Daily Trust correspondent counted at least 20 private jets at Mallam Aminu Kano International…
LAGOS AUGUST 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has approved recommendations of a committee to review “with dispatch, 368 grazing sites, across 25 states in the country, and to determine the levels of encroachment.” Malam Garba Shehu, the President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, confirmed this in a statement on Thursday in Abuja. He said…
LAGOS AUGUST 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government’s total borrowing from the Central Bank of Nigeria through Ways and Means Advances has ballooned to N15.51tn, rising by 2,286 per cent in six years, data collated from the CBN have shown. The N15.51tn owed by the Federal Government to the central bank is not part of the country’s…