LAGOS MAY 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-After a grueling electioneering process that spanned months, Nigeria now has a new President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces who will steer the ship of the country for the next four years. He is 71-year-old Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Tinubu, a former Lagos State Governor, was inaugurated as Nigeria’s President on Monday,…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Mr Peter Obi on Saturday flagged off his Presidential Campaign in Lafia, Nasarawa state capital reminding Nigerians that Presidency of Nigeria is not a retirement home for the aged, sick, tired and weak people Aso Rock is a seat of power for energetic and…
LAGOS JUNE 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Chairman, Lagos State Parks and Garages Committee, Musiliu Akinsanya, aka MC Oluomo, says with or without certificate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is Nigeria’s next President. He said this while reacting to the alleged certificate scandal of the Presidential Candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Daily Trust had reported how Tinubu…
By Tank Yusuf LAGOS JANUARY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Yesterday, we watched as an old man was retired politically. Seating lonely in an empty room, with no political friends or associates, he came cap in hand to ask for permission to run for office from a man that didn’t need to give it, and left a resounding message:…
LAGOS DECEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Elder statesman and leader of the Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), Chief Edwin Clark, has insisted that the South-East geopolitical zone must produce the next president of Nigeria. He said this when a presidential aspirant, Sen. Anyim Pius Anyim, visited him on Friday. Clark encouraged Anyim to work hard with other leaders…
LAGOS JUNE 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Twitter removed on Wednesday a post by Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari threatening punishment for regional secessionists blamed for attacks on government buildings. The social media firm said Buhari’s tweet, referring to the 1967-70 civil war in the southeastern Biafra region that killed 1 million people, violated its “abusive behaviour” policy leading to…
LAGOS MARCY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo on Saturday, at the State House, Abuja received vaccination for the Coronavirus (COVID-19). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the president’s personal physician, Dr Suhayb Rafidadi, administered the vaccine at about 11.52 am. The vice-president was also vaccinated by his personal physician immediately…
LAGOS JANUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s president has approved the release of 6.45 billion naira ($16.94 million) to set up oxygen production plants in 38 sites to help treat COVID-19 patients as authorities contend with a sharp rise in cases, the government said on Thursday. Africa’s most-populous country, where officials recorded low coronavirus numbers through much of…
