LAGOS AUGUST 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Overturning a U.S. ban on Nigerians seeking immigrant visas will take “enormous resources”, but the nation is making progress, President Muhammadu Buhari said on Thursday. Nigeria was among six countries in an expanded version of U.S. President Donald Trump’s travel ban, announced in January, which blocked their citizens from obtaining U.S. visas…
LAGOS AUGUST 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, “erroneously” amended the sixth edition of the Nigeria Broadcasting Code, the chairman of the National Broadcasting Commission board, Ikra Bilbis, has said. The minister while unveiling the reviewed code on August 4 in Lagos had said the amendments were necessitated by a presidential directive,…
LAGOS AUGUST 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Governor Willy Obiano of Anambra state, South- East Nigeria, has slammed a one year suspension on twelve Traditional rulers in the state for visiting President Mohammadu Buhari, in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, without getting his approval for the trip. African Examiner gathered that the Aso Rock Villa visit by the affected Monarchs, was…
LAGOS AUGUST 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), the Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee on Corruption, PACAC, has faulted President Muhammadu Buhari’s decision to compose a panel to probe the suspended Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu. According to Sagay, Chairman of the panel, Isa Ayo Salami, is the only person…
LAGOS AGUST 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The officer of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) who rejected $412,000 bribe, Assistant Comptroller General of Customs (ACG) Bashir Abubakar has been sacked for “negligence”, ElombahNews was informed. It could be recalled that ACG Abubakar in 2018 was well celebrated for rejecting a bribe of $412,000 from unscrupulous Tramadol drug smugglers. President Muhammadu Buhari…
PRESS STATEMENT The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says that it is a sad commentary for President Muhammadu Buhari, who won election on a free ballot in 2015 to contemplate or bemoan how he could have used security agencies to undermine the integrity of the electoral process in our country. Nigerians are aware that in the…
LAGOS AUGUST 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has told Nigerians that his party, the All Progressives Congress, APC, could have used the military to overrun opposition states but instead chose to be impartial during the 2019 general elections. Buhari said this when governors from the Northeast met with him and the Vice President Prof Yemi Osinbajo…
LAGOS AUGUST 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Stakeholders from the coastal and riverine communities in Niger Delta region have warned against the abrupt dismantling of Secure Anchorage Area SAA in Lagos being handled by a capable and competent indigenous company. The stakeholders also faulted the plot by the Ministry of Transportation and Nigerian Port Authority NPA to terminate the…