LAGOS APRIL 28TH (NEWSRANGRES)-President Muhammadu Buhari has asked the Senate to approve his request to secure a fresh loan of N850 billion to fund some projects in the 2020 budget. He made the request in a letter read by the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, on Tuesday on the floor of the upper chamber of the…
LAGOS APRIL 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-– President Muhammadu Buhari’s COVID-19 speech is reproduced in full below: ADDRESS BY H.E. MUHAMMADU BUHARI, PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA ON THE CUMULATIVE LOCKDOWN ORDER OF LAGOS AND OGUN STATES AS WELL AS THE FEDERAL CAPITAL TERRITORY ON COVID- 19 PANDEMIC AT THE STATE HOUSE, ABUJA, MONDAY, 27th APRIL,…
LAGOS APRIL 28TH (NEWSRANGRES)-President Muhammadu Buhari has extended the lockdown in Lagos, Ogun and the federal capital territory (FCT) by one week. In his third COVID-19 nationwide broadcast on Monday night, the president explained that he consulted widely before taking the decision. He commended Nigerians for the level of endurance shown throughout the four weeks…
LAGOS APRIL 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Some top aides of President Muhammadu Buhari have been denied access into the Presidential Villa in Abuja after returning from the burial of late Chief of Staff to Buhari, Abba Kyari, on Saturday. The burial at Gudu Cemetery was attended by a large crowd – most of whom had no nose mask…
LAGOS APRIL 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Abba Kyari, Kanuri from Borno, who died on 17 April 2020 was a Nigerian politician and former Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari. In 1980, according to different biographical information on him (aggregated by Wikipedia), he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in sociology from the University of Warwick, and also received…
LAGOS APRIL 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, Mr Abba Kyari, has died more than two weeks after he tested positive for COVID-19. Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, announced Mr Kyari’s death on Twitter. Chief of Staff to the President, Mallam Abba Kyari, passes on….
LAGOS APRIL 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The leaders and stakeholders from oil and gas producing communities in Niger Delta region, have appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to release the N100billion approved for the reconstruction and completion of the East West road project, being handled by the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs. This demand was made known in a…
LAGOS APRIL 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has mandated the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control to conduct 4,000 tests per day. NCDC Director-General, Chikwe Ihekweazu, who disclosed this yesterday at the 11th joint national briefing of the Presidential Taskforce Force on COVID-19, said Buhari had mandated the NCDC to increase testing in Lagos to 2,000; FCT,…