LAGOS OCTOBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The presidency has waved aside the new controversy over the claim by President Muhammadu Buhari that his academic credentials are in custody of the Nigerian Army. Mr Buhari made the claim in an affidavit he submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as the flag bearer of the ruling All Progressives…
LAGOS OCTOBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Presidential candidate of the Peoples Party of Nigeria (PPN), Major Hamza Al-Mustapha (rtd) and former Chief Security Officer (CSO) to late Gen. Sani Abacha, claimed that his credentials are still with the Nigerian Army. Reacting to an applicant’s query about his ‘missing’ credentials, Al-Mustapha said in his nomination form: “My entire personal…
LAGOS OCTOBER 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), the research unit of The Economist Magazine, has predicted that the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, will defeat President Muhammadu Buhari of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2019 presidential election. The Economist’s forecast came less than two months…
LAGOS OCTOBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhamadu Buhari took Nigerians to the memory lane by describing his former deputy and the former Chief of Staff at Supreme Headquarters from 1983 to 1985, the late Maj. Gen. Tunde Idiagbon (retd.) as a rare example of loyalty to the country and to a superior. In a statement issued by…
LAGOS OCTOBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Aggrieved All Progressives Congress (APC) governors believed to be plotting the removal of Adams Oshiomhole, the party’s National Chairman, may have backed down. This followed President Muhammadu Buhari’s reported disapproval of the alleged plot. The governors, led by Governor Abdulaziz Yari of Zamfara State, who is the Chairman of the Nigerian Governors’…
LAGOS OCTOBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme, Prof. Usman Yusuf, who was suspended indefinitely by the governing council of the NHIS on Thursday, resumed work on Friday, ignoring the resolution of the council, Saturday PUNCH can confirm. It was learnt that Yusuf resumed at the head office of the agency…
LAGOS OCTOBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Garba Shehu, who appeared on Channels TV last night on behalf of the Presidency, disclosed that the Federal Government is yet to release names of those affected by the travel ban empowered by the Executive Order 6. Reacting to the list with former Ministers and Governors including a dead judge which went…
LAGOS OCTOBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Minister of Communications, Adebayo Shittu, has filed a lawsuit against the ruling APC for disqualifying him as a governorship aspirant in Oyo state on account of not presenting the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme discharge certificate. The National Working Committee had on September 27th (read here) disqualified Shittu from the Oyo…