LAGOS JUNE 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A fan of President Muhammadu Buhari known as Datti Assalafy posted the picture of this old man who claimed to be related to the president on his Facebook page but Buhari’s aid said the news is fake. Datti Assalafy said The man named Idris Usman is from Garin Gabas Twon, Hadejia Local…
LAGOS MARCH 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The House of Representatives has asked the Presidential Amnesty Committee to pay former Niger Delta militants on Federal Government scholarships their allowances. While expressing their displeasure with non-payment of the ex-militants, the lawmakers called on the presidential committee to clear the alleged 12-month arrears without further delay. The resolution followed the unanimous…
LAGOS MARCH 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The presidency has stated that President Muhammadu Buhari will likely dissolve his cabinet before his inauguration for a second term in office. Buhari won his re-election, polling over 15 million votes to defeat his main challenger and presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Mr. Femi Adesina, the spokesman of President…
LAGOS JNAUARY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The sixteen-page letter the former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, wrote to President Muhammadu Buhari and released this afternoon is the last push by desperate politicians who can’t handle the President politically and have resorted to subterfuge. Our first message to the former President is that he needs a good doctor for good…
LAGOS DECEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, has explained how the $322m recovered from late Gen. Sani Abacha’s family is being utilised by the Muhammadu Buhari administration. Shehu, in a statement obtained by the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja on Wednesday, said the money was…
LAGOS DECEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Dr Yemi Kale the Statistician General of the federation and CEO National Bureau of Statistics has denied ever telling Buhari or any one that unemployment computations do not take into account all sectors, age groups & both rural & urban areas. Responding to Garba Shehu on twitter he wrote: “Assuming what U…
LAGOS DECEMER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Presidency has dismissed the recent utterances by former president Olusegun Obasanjo, as a sign of confusion not worthy of attention. Speaking to journalists in Abuja on Wednesday, presidential spokesperson, Garba Shehu, said that whoever Obasanjo chooses to support at the 2019 elections is irrelevant, as the former president had publicly changed…
LAGOS DECEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A group, under the auspices of the yesterday gave the Federal Government a seven-day ultimatum to unfreeze the account of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) vice presidential candidate, Peter Obi, or risk unprecedented protest in the country. In a statement issued after an emergency meeting, and made available to journalists in Kaduna…