LAGOS FEBRUARY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria is seeking Interpol’s help to arrest three suspects who allegedly stole $6.2m (£4.9m) from the central bank, using the forged signature of then President Muhammadu Buhari. Authorities believe that the suspects conspired with Nigeria’s former central bank chief Godwin Emefiele. He is already on trial on 20 charges, including illegally receiving…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has signed the Electoral Act Amendment Bill 2022 into law. President Buhari signed the Bill at the Council Chamber of the Presidential Villa in Abuja, on Friday. The Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo; President of the Senate, Ahmed Lawan, and Speaker of the House of…
LAGOS AUGUST 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari, on Thursday, visited Bola Tinubu, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), in London, United Kingdom (UK). The President had travelled to London for the Global Education Summit on Financing Global Partnership for Education (GPE 2021-2025), which held on July 29. Femi Adesina, presidential spokesman, had said Buhari…
LAGOS JULY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Worried by the rising cases of armed violence and kidnapping in Nigeria, a human rights lawyer, Chief Malcom Omirhobo, has written an application to President Muhammadu Buhari, requesting for licence to possess a 6.147 premium AK47 assault riffle to defend himself. The lawyer, in the application dated July 8, 2021, said he…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has extended the tenure of Mohammed Adamu as the Inspector General of Police (IGP) by three months. Mr Adamu was due to retire from the police last Monday having spent the maximum 35 years in service. The extension to his tenure was announced on Thursday by the Minister of…
By Dele Momodu LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Fellow Nigerians, please, take note of the title of my column this week. I did not say Nigerians are dying. That is stale news, as well as an understatement. My focus is that the country called Nigeria is dying. I do not know what sort of security briefing President…
LAGOS SEPETEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Some Nigerians have descended on the Shoprite mall in Osapa, Lekki area of Lagos. Videos of the attack have gone viral on the social media. Shoprite is a South African brand and business. One of the video showed a lot of Nigerians gathered at the entrance of the mall, prevented from going…
LAGOS AUGUST 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has said that with the executive order signed by President Muhammadu Buhari, no Nigerian will now get international passport without the national identity card. The NIMC Director in Ekiti State, Gbenga Ifayefunmi, disclosed that there are 22 collection points in the state, urging residents to avail…