LAGOS SEPTEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari’s Aide, Prof. Charles Quaker Dokubo who is also the Coordinator of the Niger Delta Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) is covertly being investigated in the United States by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for money laundering, racketeering and fraud. FBI sources confided in Pointblanknews.com that Dokubo alongside his kinsman…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has sent the embattled Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Mrs. Winifred Ekanem Oyo-Ita on indefinite leave and approved the appointment of Dr. Mrs. Folashade Yemi-Esan as the Acting Head with immediate effect. Dr. Yemi-Esan, until her appointment was the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Petroleum Resources. A…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN) has lauded the constitution of an Economic Advisory Council (EAC) by President Muhammadu Buhari. In a statement on Tuesday by its Director-General, Segun Ajayi-Kadir, MAN described the news of the formation of the council as “timely and commendable”. President Buhari had set up the Council chaired…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerians of Igbo extraction yesterday took the case of marginalisation and exclusion allegedly orchestrated against them by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration to the United Nations (UN). The group urged world powers to mount pressure on President Buhari to right the wrongs meted against the Igbo ethnic nationality, alleging that there was…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina , on Monday , unleashed a torrent of abuse and threats on PUNCH ’s State House Correspondent, Mr John Ameh. Ameh and other journalists were at the Press Gallery of the Presidential Villa , Abuja when Adesina , a…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has dissolved the Economic Management Team (EMT) and in its place constituted an Economic Advisory Council (EAC) that will report directly to him. The following are members of the new council, according to a statement by Buhari’s spokesman, Femi Adesina. 1. Prof. Doyin Salami – Chairman 2. Dr. Mohammed…
By Paul Carsten LAGOS SEPTEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS) – When Islamic State gunmen stormed the northeast Nigerian town of Magumeri on the night of August 21, they had free rein. Nigerian soldiers had left the town earlier that month under a new strategy of withdrawing to “super camps” that can be more easily defended against insurgents…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian court upheld President Muhammadu Buhari’s victory in February elections, dismissing a challenge by the main opposition candidate that sought to overturn the win. The five-judge Presidential Elections Petitions Tribunal voted by a majority in favor of Buhari in a ruling Wednesday in the capital, Abuja. “I have come to the…