LAGOS AUGUST 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Ministry of Education has confirmed that Chief John Momoh, Chairman of Channels Television, has been named as the acting Chairman of the Governing Council, University of Lagos, UNILAG. Mr Momoh will take over from Dr. Wale Babalakin who had been asked to recuse himself along with the University’s embattled Vice-Chancellor,…
LAGOS AUGUST 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government has directed the Pro-Chancellor and Chairman, Governing Council of the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Wale Babalakin, to recuse himself from official duties relating to the institution. Spokesman of the Ministry of Education, Ben Goong, who broke the news in a statement yesterday, said Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe was also directed…
LAGOS AUGUST 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) rejects out rightly the Companies and Allied Matters Act, 2020 that was assented to by President Muhammadu Buhari recently. By implications, he has repealed the Companies and Allied Matters Act, 1990 (1). The law, to say the least is unacceptable, ungodly, reprehensible and…
LAGOS AUGUST 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Malam Wada Maida, Chairman, Board of Directors of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), is dead. A member of his family, Lawal Sale Maida, said Maida died in Abuja on Monday. He was aged 70. He was not ill when he died Monday night. He went to the office as usual in…
LAGOS AUGUST 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Bishop David Oyedepo has criticized the application of the Company and Allied Matters Acts (CAMA) in churches, following its signing into law by President Muhammadu Buhari on August 7, 2020. The law which permits the registrar-general of Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) and a supervising minister to strictly supervise religious bodies and charity…
LAGOS AUGUST 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Hassan Boguma, a prominent chief in Borno, has condemned Nigeria’s security situation and corruption in government. The Zanna Boguma of Borno also revealed how the North requested the United States to support President Muhammadu Buhari for the 2015 poll. Boguma, a member of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF), spoke to Arewa Agenda….
LAGOS AUGUST 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Coalition of Northern Groups has raised the alarm over what it described as Nigeria’s drift towards becoming a police state under the watch of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.). The coalition specifically noted the invitation extended to a former Speaker of the House of Representatives; Alhaji Umar Ghali Na’abba…
LAGOS AUGUST 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Ghali Umar Na’abba, has been invited by the Department of State Services over the interview he granted Channels Television on Thursday regarding the agenda of the National Consultative Front to bring about a new Nigeria that works for all. Spokesperson for the group, Dr…