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…
LAGOS JANUARY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The federal government has appealed to Nigerians not to be hesitant to take the COVID-19 vaccine when it gets to Nigeria. An official also said President Muhammadu Buhari, Vice President Yemi Osibanjo and other prominent Nigerians are willing to be among the first set of Nigerians to receive the vaccine on live…
LAGOS JANUARY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari reaffirmed he will leave office in 2023, addressing concerns he wants to change the constitution to seek a third term. Buhari, 77, won a second four-year mandate in March, the last he’s permitted under the constitution of Africa’s largest oil producer. With speculation already mounting over who the…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Pan-Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere, has said that Southern Nigeria would resist any attempt by the North to retain the presidency after the expiration of the tenure of incumbent President, Muhammadu Buhari in 2023. Nigeria’s two leading political parties, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) are expected to…
LAGOS JANUARY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)– Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari said on Thursday he does not know if he will seek re-election in 2019 and the decision is personal and also for Nigerians. Buhari, 75, was speaking in a radio interview. He was elected in 2015 but spent much of 2017 in Britain being treated for an…
