LAGOS NOVEMBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government has announced abolishment of the policy of preference for catchment areas in admitting new students in Federal Universities. President Mohammadu Buhari announced this yesterday at the 45th convocation ceremony of the University of Benin in Benin City. The President who was represented by the Deputy Executive Secretary, National Universities…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The senator who reintroduced the bill that seeks to penalise hate speech claims he has been receiving threatening messages after the first reading of the bill. Aliyu Abdullahi said this during a press briefing in Abuja on Monday. He, however, said he is not a coward and will not back down from…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Human right activist and Former APC Presidential Aspirant in 2019 general election, Barr Christmas Akpodiete while delivering a paper at conference of good governance recently in Washington DC USA, exalted the achievements of the All progressive congress (APC) and praised President Buhari anti corruption crusade. He said if not that Muhammadu Buhari…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A lawyer, Tope Akinyode, has sued President Muhammadu Buhari and the Senate over the proposed ‘Protection from Internet Falsehood and Manipulations Bill 2019.” In a suit he filed before the Federal High Court in Lagos, Akinyode seeks an order of perpetual injunction prohibiting the respondents from enacting the bill, “which was introduced…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Fuel stations along Nigeria’s land borders have closed and prices have spiked after customs authorities banned deliveries of petroleum products to stations within 20 kilometres (12 miles) of the border in an attempt to curb smuggling. Border communities have complained about the move however, prompting Nigeria’s lower chamber of parliament on Tuesday…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGES)-The debate in the country for some time now has been where the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2023 would come from. And now that the petition filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, challenging the re-election of President Muhammadu Buhari in the…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The presidency has broken its silence on why some aides of Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo were asked to go saying President Muhammadu Buhari cut down the number of those working with his deputy to save the cost of governance. It would be recall that the appointments of some aides of the Vice President…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A federal high court in Abuja has issued a summon on the Special Adviser to President Mohammadu Buhari, and the Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Professor Charles Dokubo, to appear before it over his alleged illegal stay in office. The order was given by Justice Ahmed Mohammed on November 7 where…