LAGOS MARCH 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Sitting Presidents will no longer enjoy immunity in criminal matters if the alteration being proposed to the 1999 Constitution by the Senate sails through, The Nation learnt on Thursday. Also to lose immunity is the Vice President, Governors and their deputies in the impending alteration. This followed the second reading of a…
LAGOS DECEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The House of Representatives introduced a bill to change the tenure of President, Governors to a single term of 6 years. Sponsored by reps member John Dyegh of the All Progressives Congress, the bill has passed through a first reading and has been listed for a second reading by the House. The…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Founder of One Love Family, Satguru Maharaj Ji, has described the APC National Leader, Sen. Bola Tinubu, as fit and suitable for presidency from the southern part of the country in 2023. Maharaj Ji stated this on Wednesday at a news conference held at his Maharaj Ji village to herald the…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A lawyer, Tope Akinyode, has sued President Muhammadu Buhari and the Senate over the proposed ‘Protection from Internet Falsehood and Manipulations Bill 2019.” In a suit he filed before the Federal High Court in Lagos, Akinyode seeks an order of perpetual injunction prohibiting the respondents from enacting the bill, “which was introduced…
LAGOS OCTOBER 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Governor Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to be magnanimous in victory, just as he saluted Alhaji Atiku Abubakar’s doggedness, tenacity and a strong belief in the judicial process. “This is a time for Mr President to run an inclusive government and strive to forge a true Nigerian…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-MKO Abiola rival in the annulled June 12, 1993 Presidential election and National Republican Convention candidate, Alhaji Bashir Tofa has said that zoning is dead in the country. Tofa who said said the idea will never promote unity among Nigerians, advised that the South should not expect the North to relinquish power…
LAGOS JUNE 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former National President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and erstwhile Vice-Chancellor of the Imo State University (IMSU), Prof Ukachukwu Awuzie, has said that it would be difficult for power to return to the Southwest in 2023 going by power equation in the country. According to him, even if the…
LAGOS JUNE 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Presidency has described as false, reports that President Muhammadu Buhari approved the establishment of the state and local government police in the country on Monday. Reports had emerged that President Buhari made the approval on the recommendations of the Presidential Panel on the Reform of Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS). The reports…