LAGOS AUGUST 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Speaker of the Edo State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Frank Okiye, has raised the alarm over a plot by the Governor of Imo State, Hope Uzodinma and stakeholders in the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Edo State, to import a fake mace to violently take over the Edo State House of…
LAGOS AUGUST 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Consultative Front, a newly formed group, has told Nigerians to be prepared for nationwide mass action against the President Muhammadu Buhari government. The mass action, according to the group, is against corruption, hunger, abuse of public trust and insecurity. This was contained in a statement jointly issued on Sunday by…
LAGOS AUGUST 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The President, Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the Niger Delta Development Commission to pay its scholarship beneficiaries studying abroad. This was contained in a statement titled ‘NDDC invites President Buhari to Commission Signature Project’ and signed by the NDDC Director, Corporate Affairs, Charles Odili, on Tuesday. Odili said Buhari conveyed the directive to…
LAGOS AUGUST 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Northern youths have rejected arguments by influential nephew of President Muhammadu Buhari, Mallam Mamman Daura, that competence, and not zoning, should determine the next President. The youths, under the aegis of the Arewa Youths for Peace and Security (AYPS), said the south should be allowed to produce the next President because it…
LAGOS AUGUST 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Reliable sources from Aso Rock have hinted on some of the reasons why President Muhammadu Buhari refused to see Osagie Ize-Iyamu, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the September 19, 2020 gubernatorial election in Edo State, despite several pleas by the Secretary to Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha on…
LAGOS AUGUST 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday in Abuja reacted for the first time on the allegations of corruption leveled against the leaderships of some Federal Government Agencies and Commissions. These commissions include the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). The president, who spoke after observing his…
LAGOS JULY 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari says he will be observing this year’s Eid-el-Kabir prayers with his family members within the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Presidential spokesman Garba Shehu stated this in a release on Wednesday. The statement said the president would not be receiving Sallah homage from well-wishers due to the coronavirus pandemic. “President Muhammadu…
LAGOS JULY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo is missing as Muhammadu Buhari named some railway stations after some ‘Deserving Nigerians’. On Monday, Rotimi Amaechi, minister of transportation, announced that the president had given approval that stations along the Lagos-Ibadan and the Itakpe-Ajaokuta-Warri corridors should be named in honour of some of the nation’s leaders. Bola Tinubu,…