LAGOS APRIL 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A presidential aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr Peter Obi, has said he will initiate policies and programmes that will transform Nigeria from a “consumption economy to productive one”. Obi said this on Thursday, when he came for consultation with Abia PDP chieftains at the state Secretariat in Umuahia. He…
LAGOS APRIL 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A former head coach of Nigeria, Gernot Rohr has dragged the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) before FIFA and is awaiting a ruling on a $1m compensation claim for unfair dismissal, BBC Africa reports. Rohr was fired in December, weeks for the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon. The German is the…
LAGOS APRIL 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerians should stop looking for consensus candidate and look for “problem solvers” as presidential materials for 2023. Mr Peter Obi, Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) presidential aspirant made the declaration at Abakaliki on Tuesday, while addressing newsmen during his consultation with PDP faithful in Ebonyi. “Nigerians want a person who will start…
LAGOS APRIL 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba, psc(+), NPM, fdc, has ordered the review of police personnel and operational assets deployments to schools and colleges around the country, to ensure the protection of schools and colleges, particularly boarding schools, tertiary institutions, and its campuses in areas prone to security breaches around…
LAGOS APRIL 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria will next year conduct its first census in 17 years to try to accurately survey its population, estimated at more than 200 million people and the largest in Africa, the head of the national population agency said on Thursday. Censuses are controversial in Nigeria because rival ethnic and religious groups have…
LAGOS APRIL 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The U.S. State Department has cleared the sale of 12 AH-1Z Cobra attack helicopters to Nigeria worth nearly $1 billion, apparently after U.S. lawmakers lifted objections over human rights concerns. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency on Thursday announced the sale of the helicopters and related defense systems to the Nigerian military. The…
LAGOS APRIL 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-One week after a marathon meeting with leaders of Nigeria’s security architecture, the House of Representatives, on Wednesday, lamented the rising spate of insecurity in several parts of the country especially Benue, Taraba and Plateau states. Members of the House took turns to criticise the action and inaction of the regime led…
LAGOS APRIL 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria‘s President Muhammadu Buhari has vowed there will be “no mercy” for gunmen who killed more than 150 people in a series of weekend attacks in the country’s north. In some of the worst violence Nigeria has seen this year, armed gunmen on motorcycles raided and razed a group of villages in…