LAGOS OCTOBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo has decried the size of debt being owned by the country, years after he left office in 2007. Obasanjo recalled he left the nation with about $70 billion, including a $45 billion reserve and $25 billion in a designated “excess crude” account. The former President spoke on…
LAGOS OCTOBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former minister of power, who later served as governor of Cross River State, Senator Liyel Imoke, on Thursday, in Lokoja, stated that alleged “expenditure” of a phantom $16 billion on the power sector by the Olusegun Obasanjo administration never happened. Imoke, who was also Chairman of the Power Sector Technical Board…
By Malcolm Omirhobo LAGOS AUGUST 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Bad governance that Nigerians have being protesting against since August 1st did not start today , it started from day one of our independence in 1960 and continued to our first republic in 1963 up to 1966 when a Nigerian Youth Lieutenant-Colonel Patrick Chukwuma “Kaduna” Nzeogwu a bossom friend…
LAGOS AUGUST 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has condemned the manner in which President Bola Tinubu’s administration removed the fuel subsidy, warning of the increased hardship it will cause for ordinary Nigerians. He gave the warning in an interview with the Financial Times. Obasanjo said that the government should have prioritized mitigating the hardship caused…
LAGOS JUNE 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Contrary to the impression created, former President Olusegun Obasanjo did not purposely visit Nigeria’s First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, during the Eid, popularly known as Sallah in Nigeria. The Special Adviser on Media to the First Lady, Busola Kukoyi, had in a post on her X handle made the claim. Kukoyi had…
LAGOS JUNE 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has caused a stir on social media with a controversial video. TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports that the former president was seen in the video that surfaced social media, donning a cap with President Bola Tinubu’s insignia, which surprised many Nigerians. Recall that Obasanjo during the 2023 presidential elections,…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former President Olusegun Obasanjo said over 80 per cent of Nigeria’s crude oil were stolen. Obasanjo stated this in Abuja at the launching of a book titled, ‘Court and Politics,’ written by Dr. Umar Ardo, a former associate of the ex-Vice President, Atiku Abubakar. According to the former president, one of the…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Kehinde Akinyemi, spokesperson to the former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, has reacted to claim in a viral video that the former Nigerian President is dead. According to Dubawa, a WhatsApp video suggesting Obasanjo was dead went viral on Tuesday, September 5, 2023. The fact-checking platform said the video was captioned in French –…