LAGOS JANUARY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria is discussing as much as $1.5 billion of World Bank funding to help ease a severe dollar shortage that has contributed to the naira’s steep decline. “We’re hoping to get $1 billion or $1.5 billion from the World Bank” for budgetary support, Finance Minister Wale Edun said Wednesday in a Bloomberg…
LAGOS DECEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 20,000 refugees have fled the Republic of Cameroon to seek asylum in Taraba State, Nigeria. The refugees camping in five local government areas of Sardauna, Kurmi, Gashaka, Ussa and Takum, are appealing to federal and state governments as well as non-governmental organizations for assistance to ameliorate their sufferings. The…
LAGOS AUGUST 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Algeria’s foreign minister on Tuesday proposed a six-month transitional plan for neighbouring Niger, whose coup leader seeks a far longer timeline back to democracy. Ahmed Attaf gave his suggested framework after a tour last week to three of Niger’s neighbouring countries in the West African bloc ECOWAS, which has threatened to send…
LAGOS AUGUST 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian President Bola Tinubu said a swift, peaceful restoration of democratic order in neighboring Niger is crucial and that he is pushing back against pressure to apply military force. “Even as of this morning, I have been inundated with phone calls on the readiness of countries with their military force and contributions,”…
LAGOS JUNE 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the February 25 election, Mr Peter Obi, on Thursday, sought an order of the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) to interrogate the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on the experts on Information and Communication Technology ICT) used for the conduct of the election….
LAGOS FEBRUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The ruling All Progressives (APC) is pushing for the postponement of the 2023 general elections by a minimum of four weeks. Credible sources in the party informed DAILY INDEPENDENT that the move is being spearheaded by Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State. However, the Atiku Abubakar Presidential Campaign Council has rejected the…
LAGOS OCTOBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former President Goodluck Jonathan has called on the National Assembly to consider a law mandating governorship and presidential aspirants to contest primaries as a pair in order to reduce friction between themselves and their deputies. He decried the frosty relationship between governors and their deputies which made it impossible for many governors…
LAGOS OCTOBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Minister of Interior, Mr Rauf Aregbesola, says he will meet with state governors to agree on the mass release of at least 30 per cent of inmates from custodial centres across the country. Aregbesola made this known on Sunday when he appeared on the News Agency of Nigeria Forum in Abuja….