LAGOS MARCH 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has again returned the Customs and Excise Management Act amendment bill to the National Assembly for the second time. The bill, which was sent to the president for assent in July 2022 was first returned with fundamental observations which were corrected by the lawmakers and returned to him. The…
LAGOS MARCH 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A good governance group, Govindex Leadership, Empowerment and Development Foundation, has come down hard on President Muhammadu Buhari, accusing him of contempt by attempting to teleguide and intimidate the Judiciary with regard to the on-going litigation over the controversial February 25 Presidential election. Govindex in a statement issued on Wednesday slammed the…
LAGOS MARCH 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-After serving the country for 35 years, Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Usman Baba and about 300 other senior police officers are to retire statutorily today. Baba clocked 35 years in service on March 1, 2023 and will be 60 years old today. However, Minister of Police Affairs, Mohammed Dingyadi, said in January…
LAGOS MARCH 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A leading Anti-corruption coalition group, Civil Society Network Against Corruption (CSNAC) has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to take swift action in removing corrupt judges who were illegally reinstated by the National Judicial Council. In a four-page petition signed by the coalition Chairman, Olanrewaju Suraju, the anti-corruption group described the reinstatement of…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has called for the voiding of election results where the BVAS and Servers were manipulated or rendered inactive. In a statement Monday evening, Obasanjo said results that were brought outside BVAS and Server were not true reflection of the will of Nigerians who had made their individual choice….
By ANTHONY ECHI Dear Nigerians, this election is not about Tinubu or Atiku or Obi. It is not about a Yoruba, Fulani or Igbo candidate. It is not about Easterners or Westerners or Northerners. No sir. It is about you and I. It is about the urgent need to fix systemic dysfunction brought about by…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has disagreed with his counterpart, Minister of State, Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, over his recent comment for faulting President Muhammadu Buhari’s directive that the old N200 be recirculated until April 10, 2023, while the old N500 and N1,000 cease to be legal tender. Fashola,…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-When Muhammadu Buhari was first elected Nigeria’s president eight years ago, it was on the promise that he would help put an end to the Boko Haram insurgency which has forced millions of people from their homes in the north-east and cost thousands of lives. Eight years on, the region appears safer,…